JANET DALEY: Europe’s Democratic Deficit Grows Wider By The Day: The Eurocracy’s contempt for the nation-states it governs is growing ever more flagrant. “Is membership of the euro (or the EU) like being a Soviet satellite: a prisoner nation held in bondage to a superior power? Or is it more akin to being the client state of an imperial benefactor, which can call the shots on internal policy and replace elected governments with puppet regimes when it sees fit? . . . If this is now one ‘homeland’, as Mr Sarkozy would have it, who are its enfranchised electors? Where does the power lie to overthrow or replace its rulers? What are the mechanisms for recalling the governing elite? Apparently, they will have to be foregone in the present emergency. “