It can be considered a paradox that a liberal-democratic man expects more and more from the state that he values less and less. And yet, surprisingly, despite this somewhat cynical view of today’s politics and political institutions, the faith in the absolute superiority of liberal democracy remains unshaken. The coalescing of liberal and democratic institutions that we observe today, which contributes to the notion that liberal democracy has no alternative, is nowhere seen more clearly than in the European Union. The current EU doctrine explicitly states that it is the ultimate system, a
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