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A 22-year-old German politician who secretly served in Ukraine’s army now faces expulsion from the pro-Russian Alternative for Germany party after calling his own leadership “Russia-kissers.”
Do you know Von Der Leyen is working on a new independent satellite system Eutelstat en IRIS to replace starlink and help ukraine? It was her proposal. Ursula von der Leyen doing a lot of great things for Europe make no mistake. I honestly don’t care about her pfizer gate, because thats how negotiations work in politics. It cant be all transparant because why show all your cards on first hand… Thats not how that business works. I think she handled it well. She’s also working to make Europe less dependent on oil and gas, but to rely more on green energy sources. Plus we have multiple parties representing different groups in the EU. Instead of having only 2 or 4 like in the US. Plus we investing in science and universities, climate, or own independent software and satellites… So yes we doing good under Von Der Leyen imo.
Plus she is a woman on the top, which is such a good example for little girls to see how far they can go in life which I am here for.
Ah yes we were wrong all along. Corruption is actually good when a woman does it.
If you argue like that then we only need a king because there were kings who did great for their country.
It’s a great mistake to ignore the lack of democracy just because the wrong people point it out.
You need an argument for why the commission is still democratic, not just a list of benefits, no matter how good. Otherwise you confirm that it is not democratic.
@plyth@feddit.org
What would be a democratic role model for Europe? How would you improve Europe’s democratic system?
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With just having read the summary, I would be happy with the limited role that the Heritage foundation suggests.
The Europe of regions sounds also interesting.
I think we need a debate that is expected to last years to come up with a good system. There are reasons for the current structure that are still valid. We can keep going for a while, but we should keep in mind that the influence of the public was minimized.
A quick improvement could come from adopting the fediverse for the EU. It should be easy for citizens to participate in debates.
This is exactly what right-wingers in Europe (and China and Russia) are aiming at. This is backward-oriented and has nothing to do with democracy.
Why would a scaleback to national states not be democratic? They were democratic in the past.
Too susceptible to outside influence. These would be American/Russian/corporate puppet states.
America supposedly has become a Russian puppet state. Size is helpful but not essential. If people give up democratic power they will be ruled by whomever controls the European Commission. Having informed voters is much more important than size.
There are a lot of reasons, but as you refer to the Heritage Foundation as an institution to develop democracy, I’m afraid you either wouldn’t understand or you are arguing in bad faith.
I didn’t. I was talking about their suggestion. I hope you are not arguing in bad faith.
@plyth@feddit.org
Read your own comment. You literally wrote:
You’re are happy with the MAGA playbook.
In short, exactly because - as you say yourself -it is a ‘scaleback’ and a ‘limited role.’
We need to go forward as a larger EU would also be stronger as single national states.
You are apparently arguing in bad faith. Such a debate is,waste of time.