(Excerpt from the complete Financial Times article: In general, the Union has progressed fastest when far-reaching deals have been agreed by technocrats and politicians – and then pushed through without direct reference to the voters. International governance tends to be effective, only when it is anti-democratic")
I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.
A “world government” would involve much more than co-operation between nations. The above appeared in full on the Financial Times website at:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7a03...
It is also available on the author’s blog:
http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblo...