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In his interview with the weekly Der Spiegel, published Sunday, Monti
-- who leads a government of technocrats -- was quoted as saying that governments have to "educate" their parliaments as they try to reach agreements on the eurozone's future. `If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without preserving any room for maneuver, Europe breaking apart would be more likely than closer integration," he said, according to the report. Westerwelle responded that parliamentary oversight of European policy could not be questioned. "We need a strengthening, not a weakening of democratic legitimation in Europe," he said. The CSU was less diplomatic. Its general secretary, Alexander Dobrindt, told the daily Die Welt: "Mr. Monti clearly needs a clear announcement that we Germans will not be prepared to abolish our democracy to finance Italian debt."
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