Comments on: S & D Group Leader warns that Gadaffi will not escape Punishment 2011/03/09/s-d-group-leader-warns-that-gadaffi-will-not-escape-punishment/ London MEP European Parliament Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:57:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: persephone 2011/03/09/s-d-group-leader-warns-that-gadaffi-will-not-escape-punishment/#comment-4205 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:20:33 +0000 ?p=14009#comment-4205 The EU responsible for ‘the development of democracy never before seen on the continent’? I guess Schulz means the pretence of democracy.

]]> By: Daniel Oxley 2011/03/09/s-d-group-leader-warns-that-gadaffi-will-not-escape-punishment/#comment-4133 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:17:14 +0000 ?p=14009#comment-4133 The West should be cautious about being too preachy towards Middle Eastern and African countries on the subject of democracy.

Hosni Mubarak was a despicable undemocratic president but he did submit himself to the pretence of public elections at regular intervals. The elections were flawed in many ways and the Egyptian public did not have access to an uncensored media from which they could make a choice.

President Hermann von Rompuy on the other hand became our President without even the pretence of a public election and now this unknown nonentity enjoys a salary which is greater than that of President Obama.

The EU should put its own house in order before it starts preaching democracy to anyone.

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