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schubidubiduba a day ago

How does any government make decisions? The workings of the EU are maybe a tad more complex than most nation governments, but it largely functions the same with parliament etc. (because why wouldn't it)

Maybe a special case is the European Council with all the individual nations governments. That makes the system similar to Germany's federalism I suppose

cbeach 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The EU is completely different to a parliamentary democracy.

Only the unelected European Commission is able to originate and repeal law.

The elected “Parliament” is only able to vote Directives through. And if Parliament vote against a Directive, the Commission pushes repeatedly until they get the result they want.

As former EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker stated: “We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.”

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker

gib444 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So...how do they make the decisions?

I was actually asking