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• themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  EU is democratic, which means everyone can propose a law. Never have EU put a backdoor into anything, but its true that there have been law proposals for it.

  Never voted through.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    EU is not democratic. EU’s ruling entities are formed by governments of member countries. Which are supposedly democratic.

    And about never voted through - sometimes putting pressure is enough.

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    • unautrenom@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      EU Commission and Council are indeed not elected directly, but the Parliement who propose and vote laws is. The way it works is similar to a parlementary republic (where coalitions of parties that includes >50% of MEPs make a governement together).

      It’s as democratic as democratic gets on that scale.

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      • ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The EU isn’t democratic. As opposed to national parliamentary democracies, the European parliament has barely any power compared to the commission which has no democratic legitimacy.

        It’s as democratic as democratic gets on that scale.

        That is also completely false. There are numerous proposals that would make the EU more democratic, but that’s obviously against the interest of the incumbent neoliberal elite.

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s as democratic as democratic gets on that scale.

        That’s kinda sad.

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