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From my vote to this decision there are so many layers of abstraction that I wouldn't even begin to have a clue who to vote for and in which election if I do or
by jules 4y ago
From my vote to this decision there are so many layers of abstraction that I wouldn't even begin to have a clue who to vote for and in which election if I do or do not want this E-ID.
At least in national elections there are parties campaigning with a platform and then I can decide which platform I like best. How often the platforms of the elected parties get translated into reality is another question, but it can at least plausibly be described as demos kratos. Maybe the EU is "democracy" in some modern sense of the word, but in the original sense of the word it is not. (I'm not even saying that's a bad thing. Maybe it is in fact better to have elites deciding.)
- petre 4y agoIt's usually the pirate party or the greens. They have no representatives in my country, so good luck with that. Greece is a democracy, the EU is a bureaucracy.
- toyg 4y ago> At least in national elections there are parties campaigning with a platform and then I can decide which platform I like best. I fail to see how you cannot do that in European Parliament elections. If anything, EUP elections are more democratic than average, by way of using a proportional-representation system that matches voters' preferences more closely than almost any European voting system. And if you're saying, "but it's the Commission proposing laws!", they don't pull stuff out of thin air: the Commission effectively tries to implement an agenda that European Council members agree together. And who is EuroCouncil? National governments, whom you vote for. Also, the Commission doesn't work alone - directives are effectively drafted in concert with Parliament committees, because in the end they have to be approved by such Parliament.