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Yeah, my main point is that saying "the EU" when talking about the Council can be disingenuous - technically it's more like "national governments of member coun
by toyg 3y ago
Yeah, my main point is that saying "the EU" when talking about the Council can be disingenuous - technically it's more like "national governments of member countries" rather than the institution. Both Commission and Parliament are technically closer to expressing the will of "the EU" as a body than the Council.
- somewhereoutth 3y agoThough sovereignty and final power flows from the Council. Compare with the US system where sovereignty comes from the US as a whole and is delegated down to the States.
- toyg 3y ago> Though sovereignty and final power flows from the Council. Eeehh... This is an open point of law, technically. Per Maastricht treaty, the European Parliament has co-decision powers, and its consistent electoral system arguably makes it more directly representative of European people than national governments. Parliament "stared down" the Council on occasions. The Council/Commission/Parliament setup is really not the finished article, I expect things will change again before the end of the century.