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You may be interested to know that it is in fact a democratic union. The treaty of Maastricht outlines this in detail.
by BlackFly 10y ago
You may be interested to know that it is in fact a democratic union. The treaty of Maastricht outlines this in detail.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoSee my reply to AstralStorm.
- ptaipale 10y agoAnd still it's unable to e.g. abolish the travesty of European Parliament's monthly travel to Strasbourg. Is that according to democratic will of European people? Hardly not. It's not a hugely significant thing - maybe costs just a hundred million € per year, or a bit more, not a lot in EU context - but its symbolic nature about the essence of European Union is telling.
- notahacker 10y agoAll democratic polities have weird little quirks which are unpopular but never remotely likely to become an election defining issue I mean, the UK has a House of Lords...
- ptaipale 10y agoTrue, though to me it seems the House of Lords actually serves a useful purpose.