A precondition for successful European integration is a proper governance structure to facilitate smooth decision making. This holds especially after the enlargement of the European Union to 27 Member States. Besides fostering democracy and transparency, the recently rejected European Constitution was aimed at improving decision making in the European Union.
I’m not asking for opinions to be censored, but at least there should be transparency and disclosure of any conflicts of interest, then readers are in the picture. Doubts are raised even by some decisions to publish opinions that all go in the same direction right in the middle of periods of great turbulence, as was the case with Greece.