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Every member state can veto every EU commission proposal. The member states are far more powerful than the commission. Also, the commission itself has a represe
by _fizz_buzz_ 4y ago
Every member state can veto every EU commission proposal. The member states are far more powerful than the commission. Also, the commission itself has a representative from each member state. The funny thing about the EU commission is that they get criticized for being dictators and toothless and weak at the same time. Often even by the same people.
- Aerroon 4y agoThe problem is the obfuscation. It's another layer of politics to allow political parties to do what they want. This proposal doesn't work locally? Make it an EU level thing. Part of the problem is how a lot of EU countries work. A parliamentary system means that the parties that create the coalition in the national government have a majority in the legislature, therefore they will control the executive. The executive then appoints somebody to the EU commission. These parties then make up EU-level parties too in the EU parliament. In essence, it's the same groups of people that push politics on both levels. This is International Agreements 2.0, where politicians can use external methods to bypass local policymaking.
- arlort 4y ago> Every member state can veto every EU commission proposal This is just false But the commission can't do much without the agreement of parliament and the member states as a collective (even though member states can be outvoted by other member states) and it can't do anything that parliament and the member states as a collective explicitly oppose