Managed Democracy, the new EU chant. What this means is that you don't have democracy, but the elites keep telling you that you do while they run all the economies of Europe. Make no mistake, real Democracy has never taken real hold in Europe. The Terror destroyed the French Revolution, Napoleon followed and wrecked what he could of the other countries of Europe, and then a succession of quasi-governments til WWI destroyed all of Europe. Europeans have never recovered from the shocking slaughter of WWI. The Second World War was caused in part by the fears of the elites carried over from WWI. The French general staff had a front row seat for the slaughter that had taken place from 1914 to 1917 and didn't want to be the guy who slaughtered more men. Europe is now old and tired. They want to sleep while their elites "manage" their lives during their "golden years," disengaged from life and remote as they can be from any reality. Managed Democracy is another word for the Nanny State, a place where all are taken care of and "nurtured" so long as you do what "nanny" says even if you are told to get a job as a whore, as one woman seeking extra benefits was told recently by a German bureaucrat.