The European Union is a Dictatorship
Nah, it’s not a dictatorship - it’s a flawed idea of trying to create a nation state using the French model (see my posts above).
what should be followed instead is ideally the Swiss confederation — and by that I mean the OLD (pre 1815) Swiss confederation.
This means:
1. Jettisoning the European parliament - this is a stupid institution which is a half-way house.
2. Jettisioning this as a “democracy” - it should be the elected leaders of each country - the heads of Government meeting and deciding.
3. ending the EU council and changing the EU presidency to being a pure figurehead and one that is changed every year to different EU heads of state - so King Carl XVI Gustaf one year, President Duda the next etc. etc.
The different countries in Europe definitely need a common voice when talking with larger states like the Russia FEDERATION, the Indian Federal Republic etc., but they do NOT need the centralization since Maastricht.
Subsidiarity is my viewpoint - devolve power to the lowest level. The President of the EU should be like the President of Switzerland. Who? That’s right, you should not know or care.
Viola Amherd from Valais travels by train to Zurich with no huge contingent of body guards, she doesn’t need them - she is a public elected official