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The council and the commission because of the council are just an extension to the national governments. They love to use the EU to push through disliked stuff
by legulere 11y ago
The council and the commission because of the council are just an extension to the national governments. They love to use the EU to push through disliked stuff like the data retention directive, so that they can blame the EU afterwards.
The parliament most of the time also acts quite sensible.
- toyg 11y agoCouncil and Commission are textbook cases of what happens when power cannot be held accountable. They are a cesspool of murky establishment interests and rarely, if ever, act in the interests of EU citizens. Their structure is inherently tribal and ethnic-based, which should be seen as an abomination in 2016. They are a relic of the pre-Parliament structure, when stuff got done with treaties and agreements, and should simply be dropped in favour of simple Parliamentary rule. The problem is that turkeys don't vote for Christmas, so national-government apparatchiks will never willingly renounce their power. It's one of the many states of empasse the current EU structure finds itself stuck into, and it won't be solved by this or that state leaving.