"Given the high consensus requirements of European legislation, member governments could and should be able to assume political responsibility for European policies in which they had a voice, and to justify them in "communicative discourses" in the national public space. This is not necessarily true of "non-political" policy choices imposed by the European Court of Justice. By enforcing its "liberal" program of liberlisation and deregulation, the ECJ may presently be undermining the "republican" bases of member-state legitimacy." (Quoted from paper)