Democracy? What Democracy?

Apparently, one Danish MEP believes Bulgarians and Romanians aren't as intelligent, being in the south-east of the continent, as their Nordic colleagues in the European Union. Therefore, they should automatically have less votes in the European Parliament – presumably, calculated taking into account the size of their brains, their ability to solve complex mathematical problems or their capacity to learn very difficult languages.

"When I look at the voting rules, I see that countries like Romania and Bulgaria have many more votes than Denmark and Sweden and Finland, and I think - honestly speaking - that we are more clever than they are," Mogens Camre, deputy leader of the Europe of the Nations group in the European Parliament, whose People's Party is part of Denmark's ruling coalition, told RFI.

"We (in western and northern Europe) have much more transparency, democracy, and social welfare. And we don't think that people who did not create healthy societies should decide for us. Countries which we consider old-fashioned, anti-reform, in many cases directly reactionary, have so much influence in Europe."

Honestly speaking, Mr. Camre, when I look at what you just said, I see that given the right circumstances you could become much more of a dictator than Stalin was. Luckily for the Nordic state you represent, the democracy still at work within the EU prevents you from reaching your full potential.

Regarding the creation of healthy societies in these countries – you seem to conveniently forget who allowed communism there in the first place. Here's a hint: read Churchill's Memoirs.