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"Particularly the requirement to have agreement from everyone on everything is not scalable." Imho that is a feature: the EU's power depends directly on how mu
by RetroTechie 3y ago
"Particularly the requirement to have agreement from everyone on everything is not scalable."
Imho that is a feature: the EU's power depends directly on how much its members' noses are in the same direction.
Where this breaks down is exactly when it's "majority decides, decision is forced top-down onto member states, even those who didn't agree".
EU-wide cooperation (with willing members) is good. Some kind of 'EU superstate' is not.
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoA place where everyone must agree on everything is bound to fail. It has never worked in the history of humanity (which may be an exaggeration and I would be curious to learn about a case that did) The EU is a construction that in average is expected to be profitable to everyone. If you have someone who can veto this just because they can it will not move forward. I am actually surprised that Brexit did not end with side agreements between UK and individual EU countries as it is usually the case.