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The EU Parliament can’t make decisions, it can only veto the commission which acts as an unelected government (nominated by elected representatives of each coun
by pjerem 2y ago
The EU Parliament can’t make decisions, it can only veto the commission which acts as an unelected government (nominated by elected representatives of each country).
But I agree with you that this idea of an undemocratic EU is rather false and really dangerous. Everyone feels like this because nobody understands that the commission don’t represent the interests of their country but those of all the European countries which few people are capable of naming years after school.
- hulitu 2y ago> The EU Parliament can’t make decisions, So it has no power > that this idea of an undemocratic EU is rather false and really dangerous Of course it is false and dangerous. Any disturbance in lobby money, flowing to the corrupt, unelected politicians, is false and dangerous. /s
- malermeister 2y agoThe Comission is appointed by directly elected governments, e.g. with one proxy in-between. It is as (un-) democratic as the American Presidency, considering the Electoral College. Yet you never hear complaints about the EC from the same types that love to rally against the Commission.
- emptysongglass 2y agoActually, you do, all the time. Yes, they are both undemocratic institutions and that should be changed.
- yau8edq12i 2y agoThe EU parliament can absolutely make decisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament#Powers_and_functions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament#Powers_and... This is middle school level knowledge...
- aembleton 2y agoCan it initiate legislation? Any examples of legislation that were drafted by meps?
- yau8edq12i 2y agoI wasn't aware that "make decisions" meant exclusively "initiate legislation". You don't have to play coy, though: it is also middle school level knowledge that the parliament cannot formally initiate the legislative process. It's also written in the Wikipedia article I linked. > The European Parliament has legislative power in that the adoption of EU legislation normally requires its approval, and that of the Council, in what amounts to a bicameral legislature. However, it does not formally possess the right of initiative (i.e. the right to formally initiate the legislative procedure) in the way that most national parliaments of the member states do, as the right of initiative is a prerogative of the European Commission.[7][8] Nonetheless, the Parliament and the Council each have the right to request the Commission to initiate the legislative procedure and put forward a proposal.[9] What is your conclusion from this? What point do you want to make? Don't leave your readers guessing.
- mike_hearn 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. The purpose of a parliament is to make decisions about what the law says. Something that cannot decide what the law is, is therefore not a parliament. The EU Parliament isn't really a parliament.
- pjerem 2y agoThe thing is, European Union isn’t a country. It’s an union of countries. The Union itself doesn’t have legislative powers. The Union dictates rules the countries must follow the laws are still written by national parliaments. To be clear, I’m absolutely not against the European Parliament having legislative powers but that would require the UE to become a federation and we are still far from this.