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EU was designed to be run by technocrats and, as much as possible, totally insulated from any kind of democracy. There's no "devolution" going on here.
by cool_dude85 3y ago
EU was designed to be run by technocrats and, as much as possible, totally insulated from any kind of democracy. There's no "devolution" going on here.
- matthewdgreen 3y agoA technocratic government might produce good outcomes sometimes, but the main problem here is that the "technocrats" seem to be relatively inexperienced with information technology.
- omginternets 3y agoThe 'techno' prefix in 'technocrat' does not refer to information technology, or even science. It instead refers to a technical specialist in the exercising of governmental or managerial authority. I can't think of a single instance in which a technocracy has produced a good outcome.
- bojan 3y agoThe proposed European Constitution went a long way to fix this, but was unfortunately rejected in French and Dutch referendums. The people didn't want the EU to reform.
- omginternets 3y ago>The proposed European Constitution went a long way to fix this Uhh... what? Firstly, it was rejected by more than just the French and the Dutch. Secondly, the reason it was rejected is precisely because, for lack of democratic process, it structurally favors this kind of authoritarian opacity. The proposed constitution doesn't even begin to fix this; it is instead the very cause.
- nvm0n2 3y agoThe Constitution was implemented anyway after it was rejected by voters, by passing an endless series of "amendments" to the existing treaties, a mechanism chosen specifically to give national governments an excuse to not do the referendums that their constitutions required.