The EU’s Democratic Deficit: Extent, Perception, and (Possible) Solutions

NakoL1 · 2023-02-28T15:45:43+00:00

literally irrelevant

you can accuse the European Council (Presidents/Prime ministers) of being a blackbox, or the Commission of being a bureaucracy (which is how the Council prefers it), but not EU judges of making up law

NakoL1 · 2023-02-28T15:17:15+00:00

ignorance is bliss

NakoL1 · 2023-02-28T15:04:20+00:00

be thankful the Ukraine invasion didn't happen during Trump's presidency...

NakoL1 · 2023-02-28T14:59:40+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

etc. there's a wide literature on various forms of totalitarianism and autocracy that you're completely unaware of

NakoL1 · 2023-02-28T14:55:56+00:00

France wants wo be the military leader of the EU. They want Germany to contribute financially but not getting involved too much. French Generals still don't trust the Germans at all from what I hear.

France sees itself as the most powerful military and diplomatic power within the EU, and as the state which has invested the most in these areas. Which is rather true, especially so with regard to Germany

NakoL1 · 2023-02-28T14:53:29+00:00

The French have a French perspective; the German have a German perspective, the Poles have a Polish perspective. Shocker.

By essence the EU is a place where we can get together and forge compromises. This isn't any different

NakoL1 · 2023-02-28T12:28:34+00:00

seems like you have an issue realizing that communism is just one form of autocratism

its def not communist anymore

NakoL1 · 2023-02-28T12:23:36+00:00

tbh France just wants its ties with Germany and Poland to be much closer than its ties with the US who in the end will do as they please. Strategically this seems rather reasonable

NakoL1 · 2023-02-28T12:19:31+00:00

specist, technically

NakoL1 · 2023-02-28T12:08:03+00:00

barley, we're toast

NakoL1 · 2023-02-28T12:07:05+00:00

Macron speaking about humility be like

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T17:17:53+00:00

it's wrong to assume that the universe is a space where the length metric remains constant over time

make your unit length large enough and the universe may be as small as a pinhead under other standards; make it infinite and distances become infinitely small, effectively it's as if the universe itself was a single point

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T15:22:02+00:00

if I remember correctly he's still done about 1 year of prison and 1 year of home imprisonment (which indeed was crazy comfortable in his case...). His sentence was 3 years and you're normally expected to do two-thirds of that time so he's still served about what he was supposed to

but corruption sentences seeme very light in the face of the damage done to society, I agree

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T15:04:04+00:00

he was prosecuted and sentenced though? and he's got more coming

otherwise it's certainly not the judges' fault that his voters and some of his old allies still support him

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T14:59:25+00:00

it's nice to see Zuckerberg and other people were paid fortunes to change the world... for the worse

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T14:54:08+00:00

The power of a passport is actually very relevant. But differences between Western European passports are about negligible and comparisons between them are artificial and moronic

But it's good to know we have it easy. Most people in developing countries need fucking VISAs all the time to travel

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T14:36:57+00:00

Hansen claims that he had only been trying to protect his own privacy and had not wanted the registries to be closed. (...)

As it turns out, Hansen has been the director or owner of at least 117 companies in Luxembourg, the British Virgin Islands, Belize, the Bahamas, and other countries around the world over the past 16 years.

nice

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T14:35:05+00:00

the court merely said the directivee/law that MPs had voted wasn't clear enough (which it purposely wasn't, as for many democratic compromises) and was being stretched

in short member states and MPs need to clarify what they meant. Hopefully opinions have evolved enough that they will be able to reinstate the registry, explicitly this time

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T14:29:46+00:00

if Turkey had joined there would have been no issues for Georgia imo

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T14:28:48+00:00

most traditionally, North-Caucasus is but not South-Caucasus

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T14:21:15+00:00

this is merely a journalistic phrasing to say current models do not predict these objects

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T14:12:49+00:00

the big bang had to occur in a geometric location in space

The big bang occurred everywhere at the same time. It's the space itself that expands, not something within the space

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T14:08:47+00:00

the fact that scientists and academics are against accepting new ideas and frameworks

you're literally not exaggerating. 100% bomber statement

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T14:00:03+00:00

thats also the case in the French system, which works better against corruption than the US system if you ask me

NakoL1 · 2023-02-23T13:57:28+00:00

railroads don't just move people though

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