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Speak for yourself, nobody in this entire country asked for this - but a small state has no say. First fix the democratic process, then make statements like thi

Speak for yourself, nobody in this entire country asked for this - but a small state has no say. First fix the democratic process, then make statements like this.

seszett 4y ago
Well, this was a decision by the European Commission which is made up of one representative for each EU country, so this is one of the cases where every country has the same voice, yours as well as mine. Assuming from your login name that you are from Czech republic, our countries, both having 10 million inhabitants, are also clearly not "small states" regarding the EU although our local politicians like to make it seem like we are powerless within the EU. But my other country is France and since politicians there cannot reasonably complain about "being forgotten because we are small", they just find other excuses like Germany, or small countries - like ours - having too much decisional power. The first democratic process that needs to be fixed is at the level of countries. The EU is far from being the most important dysfunctional level of administration right now.
- emteycz 4y ago
  > The first democratic process that needs to be fixed is at the level of countries. The EU is far from being the most important dysfunctional level of administration right now. That for sure. But we didn't have problems such as this, where the EU commission representative had virtually zero approval, without the EU. There are no safe guards, and it goes completely around ours - and yes, we do have them! That's not good democracy. Our representation in EU parliament of course wasn't able to do anything about it since it has less than 2.5% of seats - and the national parliament (that would've surely voted against it) was thus forced to incorporate it, even though everybody here hates it. A country where nobody wants something and yet it happens is not a democracy, it merely acts like one with all this voting and parliaments.

Speak for yourself, nobody in this entire country asked for this - but a small state has no say. First fix the democratic process, then make statements like this.

seszett 4y ago

Well, this was a decision by the European Commission which is made up of one representative for each EU country, so this is one of the cases where every country has the same voice, yours as well as mine. Assuming from your login name that you are from Czech republic, our countries, both having 10 million inhabitants, are also clearly not "small states" regarding the EU although our local politicians like to make it seem like we are powerless within the EU. But my other country is France and since politicians there cannot reasonably complain about "being forgotten because we are small", they just find other excuses like Germany, or small countries - like ours - having too much decisional power. The first democratic process that needs to be fixed is at the level of countries. The EU is far from being the most important dysfunctional level of administration right now.

emteycz 4y ago
> The first democratic process that needs to be fixed is at the level of countries. The EU is far from being the most important dysfunctional level of administration right now. That for sure. But we didn't have problems such as this, where the EU commission representative had virtually zero approval, without the EU. There are no safe guards, and it goes completely around ours - and yes, we do have them! That's not good democracy. Our representation in EU parliament of course wasn't able to do anything about it since it has less than 2.5% of seats - and the national parliament (that would've surely voted against it) was thus forced to incorporate it, even though everybody here hates it. A country where nobody wants something and yet it happens is not a democracy, it merely acts like one with all this voting and parliaments.