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Exactly. The problem isn't the specific abuses of power, it's the power itself. The EU (and the US federal government) simply shouldn't be able to do most of
by patrickmay 3y ago
Exactly. The problem isn't the specific abuses of power, it's the power itself. The EU (and the US federal government) simply shouldn't be able to do most of what they do.
- eigenket 3y ago> The EU (and the US federal government) simply shouldn't be able to do most of what they do In my opinion this sentence straight up does not make sense. The EU and the US federal government are dramatically different, you can't even really compare their roles meaningfully. The EU is, and behaves like, a club of seperate individual nations. The US federal government is a real national government in ways the EU simply isn't. Even restricting attention to the EU it doesn't even really make sense. Which part of the EU are you complaining about? You're writing this in response to a proposal from the EU commission, so I guess you're pissed with them, but the commission can't make its proposals into law without parliament voting on it and the European Council agreeing. The EU parliament is (overwhelmingly) unlikely to pass this proposal into law and the European Council also has big problems with it. This proposal is essentially one country (Sweden) sending a particuarly idiotic comissioner (Ylva Johansson), and the rest of the EU apparatus resisting the shit she is trying to push.