Papandreou triggers democracy debate

With Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti, financial experts are now at the helm of two European countries. That raises serious questions for democracy, writes the conservative daily Le Figaro: "The extent and duration of their mandates must allow them to work efficiently. But in both cases these mandates must be limited to allow a return to democratic legitimacy under optimal conditions. It must not be said that European policy is being created by trampling the Europeans underfoot. If we have come this far it's because Giorgos Papandreou used the idea of a referendum to wriggle out of the commitments he made at the Brussels summit. Since then the question of how to democratically control the decision-making process has once again become central. It cannot be avoided when the time comes to put in place a veritable European economic government."

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