The European Union can’t criticize China, for example, because Hungary has a Chinese road project that they don’t want to jeopardize. Now the Commission itself can’t do anything about this. It’s got a fairly limited field of activity, and what this requires is a kind of restructuring of power within the European Union, for instance, that the parliament has been getting more power over time. It is the most legitimate body within the European Union, and in the long run if you don’t have that kind of a democratizing shift toward more legitimate parts of the European Union, it’s going to be hard
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