They’re such bullies. It also shows how awful democracy can be. They just change the legalese around until it goes trough. It has already been voted against, yet they want the control and do whatever they can to get it.
It somewhat works here (Switzerland) since the Volksentscheid is holy and pulling that stunt gets a lot of people really upset about not honoring that choice.
But yeah democracies need rules against repeated attempts, since this is an exploit violating the idea of a democracy. In Germany, this is already a problem, called Salamitaktik (Salami slicing tactic).
The EU is a democracy.
While it’s not perfect (no system is), each of the bodies that make up the EU legislature are democratic:
- The European Parliament is directly elected in European elections every five years
- The European Commission is made up of commissioners from each country, which are in turn appointed by their democratically elected governments
- The European Council consists of the heads of state or governance, which are also democratically elected in the respective countries.
- The Council of the European Union is made up of government ministers, which are appointed by the democratically elected governments.
Not every body is directly voted on, but each body comes forth from a democratic election
Edit: The message I responded to originally made the claim that the “EU is no democracy.”
What you’re describing is a republic not a democracy.
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ I used this to email politicians in my country takes 2 minutes, We need to stop this dystopian invasion of our privacy. Not a peep in the media about this because they fear the backlash.
Sorry for spamming the tool but: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
It shows you your representatives and generates a email for you. Very handy.
Are they gonna withdraw GDPR too? I’m under the impression that the two clash.
Well, they are not, and they will keep trying for as long as it takes.
So stop whining and let them know it’s not fine.
I’ve probably seen this shit more times than you have, but I’m still doing my part.
It will pass eventually. Seeing the way EU countries are going, the right to far right will get voted in, and they will end up voting for these sort of bullshit measures they can Orwellianly exploit.
It’s because idiots are easily swayed by anti-immigration measures that come part and parcel with abject fascism.
