Monti also voiced fear that the debt crisis could destroy the European project. (© AP/dapd)
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has drawn a barrage of criticism from Berlin and Brussels by saying in an interview published in the latest issue of German news magazine Spiegel that governments should have more leeway vis-á-vis parliaments in the crisis. Monti is just voicing an inconvenient truth because democratic principles are already being sacrificed as a result of the crisis, commentators write, and warn against bypassing the citizens and their parliaments.
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