It’s only going to get worse. Much worse. Europeans have no sovereignty at all. Not that Americans have any either … we are all just resources to be extracted. Next up is total surveillance and control. You will accept your UBI and be happy.
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The European Union styles itself as the defender of democracy in some acme of hypocrisy, but its institutions are technically undemocratic. The European Parliament holds no legislative initiative. Bills are proposed by the Commission and voted on by the Parliament and Council of the European Union. The only body of the seven European institutions to be elected by the citizenry (the Parliament) cannot craft laws at the pleasure of the citizenry. The thing is an unaccountable bureaucracy and it is riddled with technocratic idealists.
It’s a system to neuter a large swath of land and its people. Paralyzed to do anything about that they’ll be subjected to.
Wait, you moan they're paralyzed to do anything but they actually do something you moan they do something?
It depends on what the ‘something’ that they do, is
Ok, but that's a criticism so generic that it's at the verge of being meaningless. By the way, European Commission is technically not elected but it's composed of heads of Member States who are nominated by democratically elected governments - that's a feature, not a bug. And US presidential elections aren't direct either - they are cast through the electoral votes, for reasons. Legislative initiative in EU does not exclusively sit with EC - EP can and does ask for new laws and EC does not have right to reject it at its own discretion. Plus it's not only EP that has this right - there's also direct citizen's legislative initiative where enough signatures gets you EC obliged to consider a draft regulation as if it was raised by EP - https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/_en
It's all complex but when compared to most nation state laws the EU process is much more transparent and more democratic, although it is much less decisive - there's no presidential decrees etc which is both a limitation at times of war, but also a safeguard against what happened in Russia and is now happening in the US
I very much recommend this book as it goes into great detail on how EU works from inside, dispelling many myths:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enraged-Citizens-European-Democratic-Deficits/dp/0857423622
Have you actually seen the sanctions list? https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202502568
EU is evil by the design, USA is not, I wouldn't make it two of them.
