Address to the National Assembly of Slovenia - 26 March 2024

Addressing the National Assembly of Slovenia, the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola said that having a common European policy does not mean having a one-size-fits all. "Our job today is to continue to deliver and improve our project, to fix where needed and to help people recapture their enthusiasm for Europe."
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[@daveofyorkshire301]

Unfortunately she's not talking about democracy... Ideas don't outway size or numbers - that's a fantasy. Numbers are everything in democracy. The UK had 13% of the population and 3% of the vote. That's not democracy.
Plus having multiple voting systems to selectively pervert a vote is not democracy, qualified majority, block voting and others plus forcing a revote if they don't get the answer they want, are simply mechanisms to manipulate the result and claiming democracy doesn't make it so...
Ideology is not more important than numbers, people count not the ideology. That is where the EU has gone wrong... They've forgotten what democracy is...

[@Beliefish]

How did you came to 3% of the vote?

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@Beliefish Do you understand what block voting is?
13% of the population 1 country of 28 members of the union (the UK left 2020 so 27 now). Do you need help with the arithmetic? Now look into qualified voting and all the other mechanisms they use.
It is convenient that people just don't want to know how the EU functions, or whose running it really.

[@Beliefish]

@@daveofyorkshire301 OK... so USA is also undemocratic because each State gets 2 senators? And they (usually) need 60 senetors to pass a bill?

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@Beliefish OK, how about you explain to me the process of electing senators to me, since I'm not American...
Whilst you're at it explain the difference between a senator and a congressman and the difference under which they're elected, and then add the complication of any intermediaries between the voter and election result, whilst you're at it?

[@Beliefish]

@@daveofyorkshire301 2 senators per State, everyone gets 6 years, every 2 years 1/3 of the Sanat gets replaced
(in EU we are repalcing them everytime ther is Prime minister/President election in each Member)
2 Senators per State, number of congressman by population of the State. Almost all of them by FPTP (ex. Louisiana, Maine and Arizona if I remember correctly - dont want to google because that would be cheating)
In EU we give at least 6 MEP to each country, rest is divided by population.
Dont really know what you ment by " add the complication of any intermediaries between the voter and election result" but USA also has gerrymandering if that is what you are after...
You are barking at the wrong tree mate ;)

[@maxbenti320]

Go home eu