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> This idea that the EU is a massive bureaucratic entity are seriously, factually wrong. that's because the EU uses national agencies to implement its policies
by blibble 4y ago
> This idea that the EU is a massive bureaucratic entity are seriously, factually wrong.
that's because the EU uses national agencies to implement its policies
it is purely the super-high level management
e.g. the employees implementing EU farming/farming policy are employed by the member states goverments, aren't classed as EU employees and aren't paid by the EU budget, despite nearly 100% of their work coming directly from the EU
so of course it looks super-efficient, because national governments are paying to implement what it decides
this is in contrast to the US federal government, or your UK government/local government examples, which have to employ people to do the groundwork
if the spending was correctly attributed the EU budget would be orders of magnitude bigger, as would its number of civil servants
- toyg 4y ago> this is in contrast to the US federal government I strongly doubt that. The US federal government doesn't run all police forces in the US, or all the environmental agencies, or all the driving-license agencies or whatever. It runs some elements directly - as few as they can get away with, and shrinking.
- blibble 4y agothe existence of state organisations doesn't invalidate the point
- malermeister 4y agoState organizations are to the US what national organizations are to the EU.
- jaywalk 4y ago> It runs some elements directly - as few as they can get away with, and shrinking. Shrinking? https://www.statista.com/statistics/204535/number-of-governmental-employees-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/204535/number-of-governm... The number has fluctuated a bit, but for 2021 it was 40,000 fewer than 1982 and 140,000 more than the lowest points in the graph in 2004 and 2007.