• mysteryhumpf@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Good I really hope this happens. Vetos will destroy the EU. It’s not democracy if one autocrat can stop everything.

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      2 months ago

      I believe veto was the thing that has destroyed the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

  • plyth@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    Even with Spahn and his membership in the Dialog network gone, this comes from a CDU that has deep links to America. It sounds like strength and freedom but giving up veto power turns the EU into a state that is run by a majority. Dominating the EU with that majority is as easy as making the US vote for Trump. We are not better. We will be governed in the same way.

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    2 months ago

    Yeah fuck off. We never joined a state, so spare the democracy bullshit.

    Germany arguing for strength over legitimacy should raise some feathers.

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      2 months ago

      Last week Slovenia stopped the EU from issuing a unified statement criticising the Israeli government’s move to break the West Bank by building settlements in the E1 area, as defined by international law.

      Hungary, under Orbán, repeatedly using its leverage over EU decisions to extract concessions, including guarantees over the Druzhba oil pipeline. Under Péter Magyar, Budapest has also blocked Ukraine from making enlargement progress.

      Two examples listed where it would have helped oppose genocide.