By Norman LEWIS
A committee established to defend democracy from manipulation has become the cheerleader for a system that treats democratic speech itself as a manipulable object.
The publication of the "Draft Report on the findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield" should have been a clarifying democratic moment. Here, after all, was a committee of elected representatives established to examine one of the most ambitious political projects now being advanced in Brussels: the construction of a European Democracy Shield.