Martha C. Nussbaum: "Uni Eropa mungkin telah menjadi negara federal ya...

"Uni Eropa mungkin telah menjadi negara federal yang besar. Tetapi mereka harus melakukan sesuatu secara berbeda. Yang pertama, mereka harus membuat orang merasa seperti peserta dalam proyek umum pemberian hukum otonom. Akuntabilitas politik jauh lebih banyak, lebih banyak partisipasi. Itu tidak terjadi, saya pikir, karena para penggerak dan pelopor lebih mementingkan persatuan ekonomi daripada persatuan politik."

--- Martha C. Nussbaum

Versi Bahasa Inggris

The EU might have become a large federal nation. But they would have had to do things differently. Number one, they would've had to make people feel like participants in a common project of autonomous law-giving. Much more political accountability, much more participation. That didn't happen, I think, because the movers and shakers were more concerned with economic union than political union.