Thought for the Day: Scruton on European ‘Subsidiarity’
The European Union supposedly respects “subsidiarity” (the European version of federalism), in which law and policy decisions are supposedly made at the lowest feasible level. Roger Scruton writes about the fiction of EU subsidiarity in practice: When embedded in “Eurospeak,” “subsidiarity” loses its referential character, in just the way that “capitalism” loses its referential character […]