What? Few German's would be 'very happy'.

> ruling parties refuse to have democratic elections of this question

Seems like you don't know much about the system in Germany.

None of the major transfers of political power away from the German parliaments/citizen towards the democratically non legitimised EU institutions have been put to a referendum in Germany (and various other countries). That's a clearcut erosion of democracy.

How can that be an erosion? A referendum was never necessary. There is an European parliament. For major decisions the Bundestag remains decisive.

So, pretty typical of the EU then?

Unfortunately yes. We are seeing a stunning, but slow-moving coup of an unelected administrative class.

That's not true - the power of Murdoch and Goldman Sachs has been curtailed quite a lot.