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That is not the complete truth, is it? There is a large expectation that different countries implement new laws or they could be fined for it. For example, my c

That is not the complete truth, is it? There is a large expectation that different countries implement new laws or they could be fined for it. For example, my country implemented some data storing laws from the EU, the EU then decided that those laws were against human rights and removed them. Sweden then got fined because we still kept those laws and continued storing data on civilians that was against the human rights. That is pretty much a bit of a special case, but I expect there exists a plethora of those special cases. Since Germany and France I believe have the most representatives (since they are the biggest countries) the thinking goes that they have more power than smaller countries such as mine. The funny thing is that the UK is one of the biggest countries in EU in terms of population and thus have a lot of representatives in the EU parliament.

madez 9y ago
It would be unfair if smaller countries had as much representives as the bigger countries. The problem does not lie there. If the representatives decided in the interest of the country they are from and not in the interest of everybody in EU, then that is a problem.
tim333 9y ago
Indeed what I wrote is a considerable simplification. Ironically the 'human rights' laws you mention and that annoy many Brexiters were largely a British thing: >Originally proposed by Winston Churchill and drafted mainly by British lawyers, the Convention was based on the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ( https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/what-european-convention-human-rights https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/what-european-convent... ) The fact the individual countries are mostly sovereign and sign up to agreements is not that appreciated. Many have the idea that we can negotiate with Merkel/the EU and say give us free trade without free movement of people or we won't take your Mercedes and BMWs but they don't have the power to do that sort of deal. The EU trade agreements are what the 27 countries signed up to and they can't just go and change them after the event without getting everyone to sign up to a new agreement.

madez 9y ago

It would be unfair if smaller countries had as much representives as the bigger countries. The problem does not lie there. If the representatives decided in the interest of the country they are from and not in the interest of everybody in EU, then that is a problem.

tim333 9y ago

Indeed what I wrote is a considerable simplification. Ironically the 'human rights' laws you mention and that annoy many Brexiters were largely a British thing: >Originally proposed by Winston Churchill and drafted mainly by British lawyers, the Convention was based on the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ( https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/what-european-convention-human-rights https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/what-european-convent... ) The fact the individual countries are mostly sovereign and sign up to agreements is not that appreciated. Many have the idea that we can negotiate with Merkel/the EU and say give us free trade without free movement of people or we won't take your Mercedes and BMWs but they don't have the power to do that sort of deal. The EU trade agreements are what the 27 countries signed up to and they can't just go and change them after the event without getting everyone to sign up to a new agreement.