Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Poland Rejects the EU's Supremacy: Will they get Kicked Out of the Union? - TLDR News" video.

  1. That's one way to balance the books lol.
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  2. Problem is with that is the ones that integrate more will have a big advantage over the ones that don't, especially the smaller countries. I mean, imagine if Germany, France, Italy, Spain and a few other countries get together and build a single army, do you think the others will be happy about that?, they'll more or less be sidelined, this can be the case in many areas that EU countries decide to integrate and work together. But I do agree with you, I think this needs to happen, the EU is never going to work if you have to get everyone onboard to get some movement, something that is becoming harder to do the more members are in the union, majority voting is clearly needed and some members should be allowed to integrate without the rest stopping them, a bit like they did with the Euro.
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  3.  @silentbob5566  That's a different issue and ironically, many of those want independence from their country but want to be in the EU, suggesting there is something wrong with those countries, not the EU.
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  4.  @silentbob5566  The reason it's hard to reform the EU is because you need every member to be onboard where really it should be majority voting, in the end, if it comes to it, you're going to get a few EU members that will reinvent the EU as a new organization and leave the ones that are holding it back behind, many EU countries want to move forward but there's always a few stubborn ones not allowing it. Either way, as long as the US and China are around and growing, the EU isn't going anywhere and mainly because of self-interest of European nations, basically, we stand little to no chance against them without the EU clout and that would be a threat to European political, economic and social interest, after all, think how much easier it would be for the US to lower European food and workers rights if it wasn't for the EU, in fact they are already starting on a Brexit UK. As for Brexit and the EU, lets be honest, the UK was never comfortable being in the EU so it didn't surprise me that they would be the first to leave, it's not the end of the world, in fact it's a good thing for the EU, get the troublemakers out as that will make it easier to reform the EU for the better. As for the Euro Zone, many have said it was a bad idea and yet it's working, some countries have had issues with it, mostly down south but that's more because of lack of reforms then it is the Euro, northern countries where they did the reforms are doing fine with the Euro.
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  5. Depends how you look at it, the ECJ is a bit like the supreme court in the US, like it or not, the member agreed to sign up to that treaty, if they don't like those rules, they can leave the EU but they'll also lose out on a lot of the benefits of EU membership and considering the EU has a lot of support by the public in Poland, I suspect the government has backed themselves into a corner they can't win. At the end of the day, the single market and custom union only works because of the same set of rules, laws and regulations around the EU, if a member say Poland starts making it's own rules that oversight EU rules, it would be a right mess and other EU members will put up the walls when it comes to trade as it wouldn't be a level playing field any more. That's the price of having such easy open access to trade and I highly doubt Poland will want to lose that. At the end of the day, these are the rules Poland agreed too when they joined the EU, if they don't like it, they know where the door is and can leave but with Russia playing games, they would be easy pickings.
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  6. I don't think Poland will get kicked out of the EU but the Polish government might have backed themselves into a corner because EU support is quite strong in Poland among the public and now the EU doesn't need 2 EU countries to kick Poland out, they could take this to the ECJ and get the same result as kicking them out, hence the alarm bells going off with the public in Poland, they are starting to realize that they could get kicked out of the EU if they are not careful. The irony is, this could bring down the current government in Poland if they are not careful because if the government pushes too hard on this whiles support among the people for the EU is strong, it's not going to end well for the government. Also, I do find it strange how the Polish government thinks it shouldn't abide by EU laws and in this case, the ECJ because it doesn't want too, these are the rules the country signed up to when joining the EU, it would be like a US state or UK country not abiding by the supreme court, clearly that's not going to go down well for the member in question. So yes, ultimately, if Poland doesn't get it's act together, the EU will likely have to kick them out as you can't have an EU member in the EU that doesn't abide by the rules it's members have set but I suspect that either the government will back down or it will fall and mainly because of public support for the EU in Poland, either way, I don't see the government recovering from this even if it does back down as it's gone too far this time.
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