Brussels, 29/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - Declining performance by the EU since 2008, characterised by its inability to improve the quality and efficiency at work, cannot be explained by cyclical disturbances alone. It results from a much deeper malaise that strikes at the very core of the system of democratic governance. The Observatoire du Dialogue et de l'Intelligence Sociale (ODIS) makes this diagnosis in its report on the “Social State of Europe” published on Wednesday 29 January. One...