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0 pointsjampekka1y ago0 comments

Democratic and EU unfortunately doesn't mesh that well.

In the current form federal EU would be someting like having an unelected powerful executive branch, and a semi-elected weak legistlative branch. Furthermore the populace has very little idea about what is happening in the EU and who to hold accountable, partly because the media doesn't cover it, and partly because the processes are extremely convoluted and quite opaque.

Such "democratic centralism" bureaucracy probably would have benefits like more stability for long term strategy, swift execution of policies and coordinated action, but it's also very prone to corruption and elite capture.

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microtonal1y ago

semi-elected weak legistlative branch

What do you mean? The European Parliament is directly elected.

be someting like having an unelected powerful executive branch

They (the EC) need to be approved by the European Parliament and the Parliament can dissolve the EC.

If you consider the structure of the EU undemocratic, the same would apply to most countries that are considered democratic.

emptysongglass1y ago

Most of the EC already proved themselves unworthy of leadership when they pushed to pass Chat Control repeatedly.

That's far closer to a dystopia than anything the US has proferred recently.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

jampekkaOP1y ago

Yes, a more accurate characterization would be someting like partially elected legislative branch.

The parliament is directly elected, but it doesn't have full legislative powers. It can't propose new laws and the Council of the EU has veto over the parliament. Dissolving the EC also needs a supermajority.

The structure is at least way less directly democratic than any EU country.

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