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From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort (www.theguardian.com)
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Do you agree that Brexit has been "a pointless waste of time, money and effort"?

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[–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I agree that moving the parliament between two different places seems dumb. If it's cheaper to remain in one place then they should do that.

As for corruption and misuse of funds, maybe that does happen. Maybe the solution though is to elect better politicians to run the EU, rather than leave the EU.

I've thought in the past that maybe the EU should have a directly elected president, in addition to EU citizens voting for European parliament members. This might allow for more democratic accountability of the EU. Someone might run for the presidency on a platform of stamping out misuse of EU funds.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What would an EU presidents authority be? The point is that currently all EU laws voted on in the European Parliament and are ratified by member states (that’s a legislative problem of its own when not all member states are leaning the same political direction, as Hungary demonstrates), while the EU executive is just that: executing member states decision.

    Making the travelling circus an issue is akin to BJ’s 350mil bus. It’s a large number, but in a 400-450mil bloc, look at the context too. Did UK save it’s contribution to said circus by leaving?

    And yes, bigger administration, bigger corruption (when people are caught). The world today, sadly, doesn’t favour the small and valiant.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Maybe the president of the EU commission could be directly elected by EU citizens. I just think it might involve people a bit more in EU democracy. They might feel they have more democratic control over the EU.

    As for the "travelling circus", I was just replying to a post which raised that point, but I think he makes sense by saying that moving the parliament around seems wasteful.

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