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by joakleaf 440 days ago
Serious question; Why do you feel EU is a "shitshow"? What EU policies do you feel have been overreaching on the individual member country's sovereignty lately?

And why do you feel Leyen was unelected? As I understand it, she was elected by the Members of European Parliament [1], and the MEPs were elected by the people of EU last year during the election. And Leyen herself was elected as a MEP.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5yg6dp0gxo

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>Serious question; Why do you feel EU is a "shitshow"? What EU policies do you feel have been overreaching on the individual member country's sovereignty lately?

Off the top of my head:

- failing to addressing illegal immigration and even supporting it

- bad energy policies

- bad monetary policies

- no policies to stimulate innovation, economic growth, birth rates or affordable housing

- trying to push surveillance policies

> Serious question; Why do you feel EU is a "shitshow"

because Russian agit-prop bots are as much as 30-40% of activity on many social media sites.

So everyone disliking some EU policies or EU leaders, must be a Russian bot? You think no free thinking person can find some of EU's actions as being bad for them?