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But you can vote for your representative in the Parliament, and effectively hold veto on commissioner overreach. This worked fine while socialist parties held
by toyg 3y ago
But you can vote for your representative in the Parliament, and effectively hold veto on commissioner overreach.
This worked fine while socialist parties held majorities in the EP; that's not the case anymore, and it shows: the Commission-Council axis has been excessively strengthened by conservative parties.
- zosima 3y agoGood plan, except that there is 705 MPs and my country's vote only counts for 1-2% of those seats. In addition, there is so much legislation being passed through the parliament, that the vast majority of MPs don't have much of a chance of knowing what they're actually voting for. Much less anyone else.
- seydor 3y agoin theory you have that tiny amount of accuontability, in practice nobody votes like that and candidates don't even bother campaigning on EU issues, the MEP elections follow the local politics of each country, and practically they are only referenced by their local party affiliation. Most europeans dont even know what are the parties of the EP. Again, i m not sure there s even a procedure to remove the EC president