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Italy currently holds 73 seats on the EU parliament. That puts their vote on the top 5 on influential countries on EU policy ruling (Germany, France, UK, Italy,
by kh_hk 10y ago
Italy currently holds 73 seats on the EU parliament. That puts their vote on the top 5 on influential countries on EU policy ruling (Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain).
If the public was educated enough to know how important their vote is on EU policies maybe the parliament wouldn't be such an elephant's graveyard.
- Pamar 10y agoWell, we can only vote for candidates. If the main parties select these from the dead wood pile what can we do?
- kh_hk 10y agoOne option would be to follow what the MEPs are up to at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map.html http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map.html , which of course is not perfect, since politics is exactly about the contrary. We vote so we can offload the task of decision making. The other is to not vote for candidates on parties that select their MEPs from the dead wood pile. The main parties will either be part of EPP or S&D, so it will be a dead vote anyway.
- Pamar 10y agoSo, in other words, you are confirming that my vote as an (Italian) citizen is basically worthless. This was precisely my point.
- kh_hk 10y agoIt is as worthless as the candidates one votes for. More education on the importance of what gets discussed on the EP would make people demand more from the candidates they vote for. Politics and media have an incredible adaptation to mass-demands, because they either live of their vote or their audience. It is a graveyard because nobody cares about it being a graveyard, and for the same reason it's not on newspapers or the TV, because the majority does not care (or, alternatively, the majority is already busy enough with internal politics).