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The fascinating thing to me is that the EPP(European peoples party) which ironically is the strongest party in the EU and seems to be the one least representati
by rjzzleep 3y ago
The fascinating thing to me is that the EPP(European peoples party) which ironically is the strongest party in the EU and seems to be the one least representative of the people spans across almost all EU nations.
I find it very disturbing how the EU party system works above country party systems, where the EPP often overrides what the people in their own respective countries voted for.
- pavlov 3y ago> “I find it very disturbing how the EU party system works above country party systems, where the EPP often overrides what the people in their own respective countries voted for.” How else could it work? Within the larger group, the majority rule means that someone gets voted down. Requiring unanimous support for all initiatives means nothing gets done most of the time. In the US, the national Democratic Party doesn’t support everything that the Vermont Democratic Party wants. That’s just political reality.
- jowea 3y ago> The fascinating thing to me is that the EPP(European peoples party) which ironically is the strongest party in the EU and seems to be the one least representative of the people spans across almost all EU nations. Why you think that? It's the moderate conservative party. How many liberal democracies doesn't have one of those as a major party? > I find it very disturbing how the EU party system works above country party systems, where the EPP often overrides what the people in their own respective countries voted for. I'm not sure this exactly you're complaining about, but isn't that the inevitable result of any quasi-federal system? The federal government will inevitably end overriding what an individual state wants sometimes.