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It has been good for many things so far, it just doesn't get reported usually. And if the Constitution Treaty hadn't been rejected by popular vote some years a

• ferringham 14y ago
  The problem is that people don't want EU and they don't want the Euro. Hence EU is strongly anti-democratic.
• rickmb 14y ago
  "more influence" isn't good enough in a democracy. These are supposed to be the people's representatives. Calling the treaty a "constitution" without it guaranteeing civil rights and true democracy was an insult to the people, and quite rightly buried by those that were allowed to vote on it. The EP is a joke, a political instrument played by the same people that supported ACTA, and is now being used as a way to get out of it. Which in all makes it more significant. In reality, it isn't so much that the EP stopped ACTA, but the people who first supported it (people with actual power) that have changed their minds, even though most of them can't admit so directly because of international (read "US") relations. In the long term, that (changing minds) is the bigger victory.
  • yaix 14y ago
    "more influence" is enough. In a democracy, nobody has but "influence", that's called "checks and balances". Giving real power to any human being --elected or not-- is generally a bad idea.