Comments by "Archangel17" (@MDP1702) on "CBC News" channel.

  1. so basically a weaker version of the US? Because the US also is unwelcome to many now, it's pushing (their) globalism since wwII and it caused more harm than good recently in many parts of the world.
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  2. how exactly is the EU controlled by a had full of elites if the ones in control of it are the memberstates leaders who have been elected? Doesn't this mean a majority of the people want these 'elitists' in power rather than the alternatives? As for the UN global tyranny? It has no teeth without the support of its members and basically is a platform where nations come together, kind of like the youtube of the international diplomatic world (ofcourse with expansions which are funded by its members, therefore completely reliant on said members, especially the large ones). Trump hasn't broken with this, he's just preaching the popular story to get in power and be 'worshipped'. And probably also his inexperience and being easily manipulated by people playing on his vanity, greatness delusions. Global tyranny is and will for a long time be caused by large individual nations who act only for their own interests and bully their adverseries and those not following untill they get what they want.
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  3. The european council is comprised of the elected memberstates leaders and they basically have the last word in everything. The council of the european union is comprised of the ministers of the memberstates (eg for financial things it's comprised of the finance ministers of each memberstate) The eu parliament hasn't got as much power as I'd like, but they can block new laws,. They can't propose new ones, for that they need to ask the commision to do this and the commision can't just ignore them, if the commision doesn't propose this new law the parliament wants in time they need to explain why they didn't do this. The commision is comprised of a person from every memberstate who get tasks delegated to them (kind of like the presidential cabinet in the US), they get submitted by the national governments and have to be approved by the eu parliament who can also remove a commisioner/the commision. I personally would like to see the eu political system to move more to a 'normal' parliamentary system with international parties (instead of blocks of many smaller parties), where you have the parliament and a sort of senate with clearly defined powers/jurisdictions (like outer border security, immigration, environment, energy, ...) and the commision being replaced by government formed by a coalition of parties that get a majority in the parliament and senate. However as it stands the eu isn't undemocratic, those who claim otherwise often have no real idea about how it really works.
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