Comment on Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 20 hours agoYep they did.
Every nation in the EU is a democracy it is a requirement.
They elect there leaders. Those leaders send representatives to the council.
And citizens elect mep that approve or reject council mandates.
mbirth@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
At least in Germany you vote for parties. These parties then create coalitions which water down most of the reasons why they were elected in the first place.
The guy in the EU council is supposed to be the highest leader of each country. In Germany that’s the Chancellor. Which is elected by those parties/coalitions. You as a normal person have no say in who it’s going to be.
Same for the EU commission. You have no real influence on who’s going.
Then those parties/coalitions create lists of candidates for becoming MEPs. You vote for those lists. There’s no way to vote for specific people to go to the EU parliament. And those lists are basically suggestions as people can be crossed out or exchanged on those lists even after the elections are over.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
Sure. But that is not the EUs problem. It is an issue with the UK. And not one we needed to leave the EU to fix. But instead agree on a party willing to change it.
The UK electorate has not been able to do that.
Much like most other EU nations got to vote on expansion of the EU mandate.
Our democratic leadership chose not to. So we again voted them in power so did get to vote.
The whole Brexit argument was based on UK government failure being pushed as EU issues. It sure as hell was not the EU as an org that lacks democratic ideals.