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Wed 08 Aug 2008EU needs to gain acceptance and understanding from voters
OPINION:The really big problem facing the EU is not a perceived democratic deficit but the public's willingness to believe wild rumours about Brussels, writes Dan O'Brien
ONE DOES not have to be a paranoid Europhobe to fear that what politicians and officials get up to in Brussels is bad for democracy. Such fears were much in evidence in Ireland during the recent referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. They have not been assuaged by the subsequent reaction to the vote across the continent.
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