and for lawyers and bureau- crats." Few Europeans really grasp how the EC works, Hoffmann points out, and there is a wide- spread complaint about a "democratic deficit." The Council of Ministers is th'e Community's chief lawmaker, while the popularly elected Eu- ropean Parliament has very limited powers. Regulations are drafted the European Com- mission, which is not accountable to the parlia- ment. The EC Commission's president, currently Jacques Delors of France, is chosen by the...