Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Frontex: How the EU's Growing 'Army' is Attempting to Secure the Border - TLDR News" video.

  1.  @darkyada71  In Finland there are no binding referenda. The parliament can amend the consitution on its own. That either requires that the amendment is first passed by a simple majority and then by the next parliament after the next election by a 2/3 majority, or alternatively it can be passed by the same parliament without waiting for the next election but that requires a 5/6 majority. Thus any referendum would be non-binding and even those are uncommon. So far, Finland has only ever had two nationwide referenda: in 1931 on ending the prohibition & in 1994 on joining the EU. Actually, I don't even think the Finnish constitution has anything that would prevent a NATO membership without an amendment but even if it did a referendum wouldn't be a constitutional requirement (thought it's possible that the politicians might still want to have one).
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  2.  @darkyada71  In Finland a referendum wouldn't be required.
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  3. At least the EU is a much simpler entity.
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  4. But to be fair, the Europol logo is much more boring.
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  5. The US Border Patrol budget was about $3.8 billion and the US Coast Guard budget roughly in the vicinity of $10 billion, meaning they're much larger.
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