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Is that fair? Ireland should surely have a say the same way Germany does in parliament too, if it's affecting Ireland just as much. If one considers countries a
by sgt 7mo ago
Is that fair? Ireland should surely have a say the same way Germany does in parliament too, if it's affecting Ireland just as much. If one considers countries as units.
- vrganj 7mo agoThat's the whole idea, the parliament doesn't. The Council is the representation of the countries. The Parliament of the people.
- sgt 7mo agoI get it.. my question wasn't exactly what I meant to ask. I meant isn't there some kind of compensating factor. So that a country with a 100 million doesn't completely and utterly outshine a small country of 4 million, even in the parliament? Or is the idea that the Council is sufficient to achieve this?
- vrganj 7mo agoI actually think the Council is more than sufficient to achieve this, we kind of see the opposite problem way more. Hungary, a country of 9M people, keeps vetoing stuff the rest of the Union wants to do. 450M people, held back by the despot ruling over a tiny fraction of them.
- iso1631 7mo agoIs it fair that California has more congresspeople than North Dakota? Parliament is the unit which represent the people Council (which is 1 country 1 vote) is what represents the countries.
- sgt 7mo agoYes it's fair that it has more to a degree, but North Dakota can't have literally proportional since it will completely swallowed up on Congress. How does this work in the US?
- vrganj 7mo agoWhy shouldn't it be swallowed up? Why should a persons vote in North Dakota be much more powerful than one in California?
- sgt 7mo agoBecause if you consider each state to be a "country"... these states didn't sign up so that they could be swallowed up by another state having a very high population growth. That said, California is generating more GDP so obviously I'm not arguing that they should be completely equally represented 1:1