Posted on 02/03/2020 8:18:59 AM PST by rktman
Let’s make sure we’re talking the same thing
1. In what way do you say it is not democratic?
2. How would you make it more democratic?
My answers are:
2. I would scrap the EU parliament and keep just the EU council of heads of government and the eu commisison as bureaucrats listening to the heads of government
1. I would then make it LESS democratic and LESS of a unified political entity, but keep it as a confederation which discusses as a group.
So I ask you
1. In what way do you say it is not democratic?
2. How would you make it more democratic?
The Bundesrepublik Deutschland never ceased to exist. “West Germany” (Westdeutschland if you like) was never an entity.
That the anational bureaucracy patronizes the distinct peoples with encouraging PC compliant forms of cultural expression, is not a persuasive argument.
I gave you links to my more extensive arguments. Each has a menu of yet more extensive argument.
1. Dictating nation’s immigration policy - you do realize that Member States retain the right to determine volumes of admission for people coming from third countries to seek work and that EU law makes no provision for the harmonisation of national laws and regulations.
Germany wanted to force other states to take non-eu nationals and they failed - it was vetoed.
What example of dictating do you have?
2. relations between the sexes - again, what exactly are you talking about? There is no policy forcing this — can you name what policy you are referring to?
And you didn’t give me “links to my extensive arguments” — what you did give were links to some Sanders-like ranting blog.
No facts, no links to any policies - and the blog posts you link are not only without any facts besides rants, they are rants from 2001
Still waiting for why you want a confederation of independent countries to be more democratic - do you want them to become a united states of europe??
I would disagree about Portugal, Italy, Spain.
They have benefited heavily from a common market. And the common currency has made business and tourism a lot easier.
For Portugal and Spain, the EU money for infrastructure has been invaluable.
Now if you point out the pain of the EU parliament and Commission, I’ll agree with you. Ideally the EU should be the EU council of heads of government
You say the Euro has been great for Southern Europe. It has pushed them into a debt trap. Since they can no longer engage in their standard corrective - competitive devaluation of the currency - they are stuck with sky high unemployment, low growth or no growth and crushing debts they can’t repay.
They would have been a lot better off if they still had their national currencies and could devalue them to make themselves more competitive on cost.
Since when?
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