Message from @zutt
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being unable to vote for someone, but being able to vote against them
The fact that the members of the German Parliment are elected by the German Citizenry, means that they have to have the people intrests in mind since that is the standard on if they get re-elected or not.
Black what ? Commision is appointed
thats from the article you posted
And cen be dissmissed through eu parliament vote
Yep
Each state appoints one guy
But can the European people ask for his removal directly?
Why be able to vote against him or not at all?
They cant same as they cant remove czech preaident
Or british pm
Or us president
Whats the deal there ?
They elect their own govs and ppl from those govs apoint the commisioners
The People can remove the US President, they just have to abide by the terms of the US constitution.
Allow me to fix your analogy
Please do
Imagine that the UK can vote to remove the US president
but not vote for him
Again
Because unless im reading this wrong that is the power granted to the EU parliment
Citizen votes for eu prliament members
The EU parliment is elected by popular vote i believe
National gov appoints the commisoneer
And eu parliament can dismiss the commision
It could have been organized better i admit
But its not devilish imo
The problem in Britain, though, is that this new way of ‘electing’ the Commission President did not feel very democratic. None of the main British parties are in the EPP (the Conservatives left the EPP in 2009), and so British voters were not able to vote for Juncker (although they could vote against him).
Is this refering to elected british representatives then?
in the EU parliment?
OK but we have the same thing in the UN, but the UN doesn't look at a countries budget (Approved by the countries poppulation at a vote) and toss it out the window. Something the EU has done a few times now.
Well commison president is different beast as all member states vote for him
Sometimes some states will get outvoted in the case of the eu president
As for the budget thing
They only demand what you sign
In treaty
I agree they have been selective about that in the past tho
Thats wrong
No country should have a budget deficit larger than 3 percent of gross domestic product or debt above 60 percent of output, and governments must set annual targets to show they’re moving in the right direction. The EU made the rules for euro-area countries stricter in 2013 following the sovereign debt crisis, which brought some member economies including those of Greece and Portugal to the brink of collapse and needing bailouts. The updated rules require euro-zone nations to pursue a balanced budget by law, a step aimed at keeping mounting public debt in check.
Yep