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What’s to prevent the EU from declaring itself trustworthy?
by tinus_hn 4y ago
What’s to prevent the EU from declaring itself trustworthy?
- josefx 4y agoIts courts? At least that is the only thing that keeps the EU Commission from going full police state.
- tgv 4y agoThe EU Commission? You mean, the one without an actual police force or army, or any say over the member states' criminal legislation? That Commission?
- anticensor 4y agoPESCO and Europol exist. Not a body of the EU commission, but still.
- josefx 4y ago> or any say over the member states' criminal legislation? That Commission? One of the jobs of the commission is deciding whether member states are in line with their treaty obligations, that includes any laws passed by said member states.
- simplotek 4y ago> At least that is the only thing that keeps the EU Commission from going full police state. Such an extraordinary claim. Are you able to provide any evidence that supports your claim that at any time the EU Commission tried to go "full police state", and that courts kept that from happening?
- pmontra 4y agoThe Commission and the Parliament can do whatever they want but it's the Council that de facto has the final word on everything that matters.
- tinus_hn 4y agoThe EU court can only rule using laws written by the EU