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What a bizarre claim. The Council is the heart of power in the EU. It is there more than anywhere else that the fundamental political decisions of the bloc are
by Emma_Goldman 6y ago
What a bizarre claim. The Council is the heart of power in the EU. It is there more than anywhere else that the fundamental political decisions of the bloc are made. The EU is more like the nineteenth-century Concert of Europe than you might realise.
- ginko 6y agoYes, but that's what the enemies of European integration wanted. We could have had a proper constitution for years now with a hugely strengthened Parliament and a directly elected president but some people didn't want that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- djbebs 6y agoThe enemies of integration didnt want this. They wanted the eu gone wholesale.
- Emma_Goldman 6y ago1) That's irrelevant to the question at hand: that the Council is an integral part of the EU, and so the actions of the Council can appropriately be called actions of the 'EU' 2) It's not especially helpful to frame what is practically possible in politics simply in terms of what people 'want'. Regardless of what you want, there are pretty hard legal, economic and political obstacles to democratising the EU that have to be taken seriously in any strategic assessment of the situation