Re:It's not democratic. (Score 1)

It's closed-door rulemaking the old-fashioned way.

Democratic nations should be petitioning against the negotiations and attempting to recall council member representatives on that basis.

Before it's too late...

it is democratic as long as the people doing the negociations are democraticly elected. That is called representative democracy. "We the people" can punish the leaders if they f- up by not re-electing them.

Doing this behind closed doors makes it quicker and i have complete faith that it will either be published or leaked to the public otherwise when the negotiations are over.

In the Netherlands (where i live), it is common that after elections they start coalitiontalks behind closed doors, But every time one of the parties leaks information to the press to pressure the other party.

It is this leaking that shifts the balance away from the electoral result, So actually i believe that leaking does more harm to the democratic process than the fact that they do it behind closed doors.