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by brevhtff
748 days ago
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Thanks for explaining a bit how things work in the EU. Pretty interesting, and not something I would have thought or cared to look up. In this light it feels a bit like some of the grandstanding bills US politicians write or even pass in the House, knowing they haven’t a chance in the Senate, or whatever. And perhaps the audience is folks in the home country or even other politicians in the home country? |
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Wikipedia articles on the operation of EU institutions are awful - barely any better than the official EU documentation. You'd be led to guess that the Wikipedia articles were composed by EU officials.
> In this light it feels a bit like some of the grandstanding bills US politicians write
It's more sinister than that. The Commission is the permanent secretariat of the EU; the Commissioners are usually political has-beens in their home country, and they don't need to grandstand, because they are not elected.
So what happens is that the Commission settles on some horrible scheme, and proposes legislation accordingly. Parliament duly wrecks the proposal, and sends it back. This continues until someone gets tired. But Parliament is subject to elections; the Commission isn't (and it doesn't seem to get tired, either). So the same horrible proposals keep coming back, until elections bring in a Parliament that is more favourable to the proposal.