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Originally Posted by jonbxx
Looking at the graphs here - https://ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/doe...-of-ministers/ it looks like we lose on agriculture votes ~18% of the time and fisheries ~5% of the time. I guess it depends how many times is too many times to be outvoted but it does show at least that the EU is democratic |
It’s a tad more complicated than that because the negotiators work hard for consensus before it gets to a vote. We may lose at the vote only a few times but on plenty of other occasions we will have given ground earlier in the process. British fishermen have long complained that the CFP and its quota system hits them disproportionately hard, suggesting that we may have given away too much in negotiations and/or lost crucial votes.