tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post680948393824788284..comments2023-09-28T12:28:57.598+03:00Comments on Grahnlaw: EU transparency testRalf Grahn http://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-63246872786745095692007-10-31T10:06:00.000+02:002007-10-31T10:06:00.000+02:00Giacomo, I have continued with a net column on wha...Giacomo, I have continued with a net column on what the Council has said on openness. <BR/><BR/>Since there is no document in the European Union more important than the basic treaties, I think they are the ultimate test of transparency: your pessimistic view or a more hopeful one.<BR/><BR/>Regards<BR/>Ralf GrahnRalf Grahn https://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-12592001132965361502007-10-30T22:44:00.000+02:002007-10-30T22:44:00.000+02:00I think they do not want people to be really infor...I think they do not want people to be really informed. I know by experience that when someone seats on the chief chair if they think that their proposal can be opposed by people they will always take as an excuse that people are not able to understand it, so they have to impose it. But this is a tricky reasoning that can be summed upo in this lines:<BR/>__I am right<BR/>__They are wrong<BR/>__But they cannot understand that they are wrong, otherwise they would not be wrong and they would have agreed with me<BR/>__So there is no reason to make an effort to explain them things, better to keep them aside<BR/>This attitude of course keep people ignorant and so they really will not understand whats going on and so the chair man can say<BR/>__QED<BR/><BR/>I have a completely different opinion based on this idea by Thomas Jefferson:<BR/>“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.” Letter to William Charles Jarvis (September 28, 1820) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_JeffersonAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14377623855540455028noreply@blogger.com