[wideawake]

Isn’t the European Parliament impotent in front of the respective national governments of the constituent EU states?

It is less so with each passing year.

One-equal-vote-per-state-regardless-of-its-size-or-population-policy that you suggested might make a greater mess than the current situation has, with tiny city-states having as much power and influence as the big ones.

Similar arguments could be made by Californians about Vermont, with a population not much larger than Long Beach, having 2 Senators.

Anyway, Europe has always been its own worst enemy, so I don’t know if history is going to come back full circle now. Isn’t it around when this time, last century, WW-I was in the plans?

On the German side, yes.

[CarrotAndStick]

How much real power does the European equivalent of a Congressman have over the European equivalent of a Senator?

Is the post of the Council members, as I am assuming, largely ceremonial?

[wolf78]

On the German side, yes.

Germany supported Austria in what was a completely legitimate War on Terror. It was the western powers who were spoiling for a fight and declared war on Germany, essentially siding with the Serbian terrorists.