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Originally Posted by Bircho
But our Government has a vote on the items that come out of Brussels and many of them have to be unanimous. There are a number that are by majority vote - that is a majority of other elected Governments. And even then they still have to pass the (elected) European parliament.
Even if the conception is they are put together by suits in Brussels (known as civil servants ...... who generally have the same qualifications as the people who put are Laws together also generally known as civil servants).
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You're surely not trying to claim that the power we have to influence our elected representatives somehow equates to the power our MEP's have in the EU are you? One of the biggest problems of the EU (far more serious than roaming charges) is the complexity of just about everything, the time it takes them to make/implement decisions on everything and their refusal to accept what's blindingly obvious for example Schengen/migration/terrorism, Greece, the Euro etc. You could not wish for better examples of the EU's inherent flaws than recent tragic events in Greece (the economy & migration) and Ukraine (membership overtures leading to Russian invasion) to mention two examples.
No not everything from the EU is bad. As I've said many times before the EU could be a wonderful thing but time and time again, due in large part to it's very structure, it's shown itself to be slow to act in a crisis and virtually incapable of meaningful reform in key areas e.g. CAP. Why is it that in order to get the benefits of what the EU should have been, we have to accept the one-size-fits-all nonsense they're obsessed with? Why can't we be part of a free trading and culturally sharing Europe without having to be homogenised?
If the Falklands had been EU territory I reckon they'd still be arguing over what to do about the Argentinian invasion.
