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European Parliament votes to abolish member states’ veto | Cyprus Mail (cyprus-mail.com)

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[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Having a member state veto today is approaching being as ludicrous as if each US state had a veto on national legislation - it allows small countries with extremist governments (of which there is always likely to be one in office somewhere) to clog up the gears of the entire union.

I hate to tell you this, but that's actually how our stupid Senate works. Each state sends 2 idiots to washington, and either one of those idiots can tank legislation with a fucking email.

[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Agree that's a stupid system, but 60 out of 100 senators can still vote to override it, right?

In the EU, on votes that aren't subject to QMV, 26 out of 27 member states can fervently agree with something but still do nothing about a veto by the 27th state, whose veto can often have nothing to do with the question at hand and be more about domestic political posturing or some other such nonsense.