It’s to generate a sense of agency, vision and possibility at a time when bullying from Trump, expansionism from Russia and competition between U.S. and China have left young Europeans feeling powerless.
As a non-wealthy American, we feel powerless, too. And I have to say, the notion of demoting countries in the EU to states is a terrible idea. It hasn’t worked well in the US, and all that it would achieve is centralizing power away from the people and into the hands of those who can buy power. Bigger government ≠ better country, especially at a time in history when billionaires exist.
Grow the EU, by all means, but your individual countries working together is what makes you great.
The problem in the US is not the federation aspect but how much central power is in the head of state and that there is barely anything stopping them. As can be seen currently
Whereas one could argue that the eu has the opposite problem. Too many parts and people with power but more opaque and hidden from the public. Some more centralization could help but too much is problematic.
I would recommend verifying that your government doesn’t have 3/4 of the system based solely on gentleman’s agreements, non-codified precedent, and rules that the politicians can change on their own at any time.
Also replace any sort of First Past The Post election system of there is one, clearly it just allows a minority to take over once they are smart enough to do the math.
FPTP results in an inevitable two party system over time, and it only takes one of them realizing they don’t actually need a majority, and can ignore the other party if their goal is destroying the institution getting in their way.
Fundamentally that’s all it has taken for the US to come to this point so quickly. One party, with power fueled by the FPTP system, who are trying to make the government function poorly to the point they can justify unilaterally changing it.
All you listet doesnt apply to german election system and its not gentlemens agreement. Bundesrat bundestag in germany and switzerland and the Switz chambers are with laws and rules. Germanys system was litterly created to ensure such as nazis wont take power ever again
As a non-wealthy American, we feel powerless, too. And I have to say, the notion of demoting countries in the EU to states is a terrible idea. It hasn’t worked well in the US, and all that it would achieve is centralizing power away from the people and into the hands of those who can buy power. Bigger government ≠ better country, especially at a time in history when billionaires exist.
Grow the EU, by all means, but your individual countries working together is what makes you great.
The problem in the US is not the federation aspect but how much central power is in the head of state and that there is barely anything stopping them. As can be seen currently
Whereas one could argue that the eu has the opposite problem. Too many parts and people with power but more opaque and hidden from the public. Some more centralization could help but too much is problematic.
Yes. A federal system. Germany and Switzerland are the two nations whos system is often proposed to be applied on EU scale
If you do achieve a federal system, I sincerely hope you do better than we have done. Good luck, y’all, and I mean that!
…we already are doing better with these systems. These systems exist and work
I would recommend verifying that your government doesn’t have 3/4 of the system based solely on gentleman’s agreements, non-codified precedent, and rules that the politicians can change on their own at any time.
Also replace any sort of First Past The Post election system of there is one, clearly it just allows a minority to take over once they are smart enough to do the math.
FPTP results in an inevitable two party system over time, and it only takes one of them realizing they don’t actually need a majority, and can ignore the other party if their goal is destroying the institution getting in their way.
Fundamentally that’s all it has taken for the US to come to this point so quickly. One party, with power fueled by the FPTP system, who are trying to make the government function poorly to the point they can justify unilaterally changing it.
All you listet doesnt apply to german election system and its not gentlemens agreement. Bundesrat bundestag in germany and switzerland and the Switz chambers are with laws and rules. Germanys system was litterly created to ensure such as nazis wont take power ever again
He says without a hint of sarcasm despite the AfD existing and growing.