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 @SrEstegosaurio @brar @dalias @Mer__edith @svitvojimilioni @echo_pbreyer You vote for the state governments and you vote for the MEPs. The commission is the end result of the state governments and by MEPs. Doesn't differ from US practice of president appointing secretaries of state or of European practice of parliament majority appointing the prime minister (and they in turn the cabinet),stamped by the President. None of this is direct democracy, ofc, but I assume that wasn't your complaint. 4 comments
@gsymon @SrEstegosaurio @brar @dalias @Mer__edith @svitvojimilioni @echo_pbreyer I suppose it would look different from English perspective as the winner of English election ends as the British PM, and singular ministers aren't as much in the spotlight. The Scottish or NIrish perspective would be different, which shows how the brexit-mentality rises from the privileged position the English enjoy in the British polity, leading to incorrect assumptions on representative democracy as a whole.  @iju @SrEstegosaurio @brar @dalias @Mer__edith @svitvojimilioni @echo_pbreyer There is some level of state politicians trying to push stuff through the EU they can't get past their own parliament. For example, the Danish representative in the council voted for the patent directive, even though our parliament (and voters) were against. @leeloo @SrEstegosaurio @brar @dalias @Mer__edith @svitvojimilioni @echo_pbreyer Not going to spend my Sunday going through everything's that's wrong in both facts and views of that post. |
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@iju @SrEstegosaurio @brar @dalias @Mer__edith @svitvojimilioni @echo_pbreyer
You've just pointed out something that ~20million brexiters couldn't grasp.