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> This is the side of the EU that foreigners usually don't see. FWIW, this is the main side of the EU that I'm aware of: laughably bad lawmaking, based on comp
by wutbrodo 8y ago
> This is the side of the EU that foreigners usually don't see.
FWIW, this is the main side of the EU that I'm aware of: laughably bad lawmaking, based on complete unawareness of (or apathy towards?) the concept that the consequences of policies aren't based on wishing on a star that they be a certain way.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not sure I'd rather live (as I do) under the US's policy regime than I would under the EU's. But our pathologies of governance are different ones.
- GW150914 8y agoDon't get me wrong: I'm not sure I'd rather live (as I do) under the US's policy regime than I would under the EU's. But our pathologies of governance are different ones. You know how the saying goes, you can live under US domestic policy or US foreign policy, but you can’t escape US policy. The idea of the EU was that by working together the member states could get their way in the face of that US foreign policy more often than they would on their own. In the absence of a strong EU, the US and China are pretty much unrestrained in Europe.
- adreamingsoul 8y ago"you can live under US domestic policy or US foreign policy, but you can’t escape US policy" - that's depressing.
- jacquesm 8y agoThe EU does a piss poor job of explaining to its constituents what its advantages are, that's for sure.