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The level of indirectness is relevant and you do not participate in election in every EU country.
by raxxorraxor 4y ago
The level of indirectness is relevant and you do not participate in election in every EU country.
- ben_w 4y agoI also didn’t participate in an election in every UK parliamentary constituency when I still lived there. I’ll be happy to say the UK also doesn’t count as a “proper democracy”, but counting it as more democratic than the EU feels like arguments-as-soldiers. My personal take is that the EU is a trade agreement that, unlike most trade agreements, has at least a modicum of democratic accountability. But the foundation of its democratic nature is the member states within the EU rather than the supernational coordination organisation itself, which is precisely as democratic as its members want it to be and no more nor less than that.