The government in Italy is about to fall,
war mongers in France suffered a huge defeat
That's a good thing then?
German government will likely fall next
Based on what?
Why are you always such a western doomer?
submitting to an unelected bureaucracy that runs EU
Let me guess, you think China is democratic even tho it has a very pyramidal electoral system, hierarchical electoral system, where only local People's Congresses are directly elected and everything after that (many layers) are elected pyramid-ally, through layers of representatives, with the added bonus it's not only bottom->top votes there, but also top->bottom screening/vetoing.
In the EU people vote directly (in many countries by politician name/not lists) on their city level, county level, the province level, the state level, the country level, and also for the EU parliament, the EU level.
The thing that's not quite as democratic and is bureaucratic is the European Commission (only one part of the EU "government"), the president of it is suggested by country leaders essentially, and is then voted/approved/reject by the EU Parliament, and then the Commission members themselves get suggested by the various respective countries' ministers and then voted on by the EU Parliament. The rest of the EU "government" are the ministers of the various countries themselves (Council of the European Union). And honestly, as much a minister is indirectly appointed in literally any country, so is a member of the EU "government", essentially.
Btw, the "head of state" of the EU is the European Council - the "heads of state/government" of the various countries.
The biggest problem is the Parliament can't suggest legislature, only vote on it, but that's in the process of being changed as we speak. Also, there's also the Spitzenkandidat, whereby even the Commission president could be directly elected theoretically.
Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutions_of_the_European_Union
I feel like, due to your dislike of unrestrained capitalism in North America, and the US attempted hegemony and imperialism (I say attempted because they haven't really succeeded), which is understandable on its own and totally fine, you're blinded into a state where you dislike anything "western" without any objectivity.
Or "le mutiny" for added zest, in line with lemmy's revolutionary tendencies, mirite?
Jokes aside, I like community.
Edit: If cross-instance same-named multireddits are ever to become a thing, I'd be okay with those being called sublemmies (y'know, like lemmy.ml/c/cheese+cheese@beehaw.org+cheese@sopuli.xyz, kind of thing, all under /f/cheese).
Meme: Russia, not communism.
Yogthos: Communism.
Edit: Also, as well, selective. Give stats for the Baltics, Poland, Czechia, etc... ex-yu is irrelevant, as it's about Russia, not communism. No offense, but it's like you're literally Mel Gibson in the meme. :P
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice
"Attempts to duplicate the paradox of choice in other studies have had mixed success." ... "This phenomenon in particular has come under some criticism[3] due to increased scrutiny of scientific research related to the replication crisis and has not been adequately reproduced by subsequent research,[4] thereby calling into question its validity. "
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Close, uBlock Origin had it, but not Firefox itself.
Nice article, ty for the post.
While this indeed looks absolutely horrible and is extremely tone deaf, and probably even does show some kind of level of closeted racism by the minister, for choosing to proceed with this, this was an art piece about racism and the issues of female genital mutilation (most common in countries of Africa) by a Swedish POC artist, and all of this happened within an exhibition about artistic freedoms, to which the minister got invited to and all of this happened over a decade ago. I remember reading about it when it happened. Not exactly news, not sure why post it now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makode_Linde#Painful_Cake_2012
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Adelsohn_Liljeroth#Political_Life
Noise pollution is a real thing, I experience it on the daily.
Just one of the reasons electric cars, public transit, and bicycles are great, not just for combating air pollution and global warming.
You don't need to, but it would be healthy.
Most complaints about the lack of EU institutions' democracy and high "bureaucracy-ness" is the exact opposite, that the people can't directly vote on things like the Commission president and Commission members, and that the EU-wide parliament has limited powers. As is, they are basically chosen by the various countries' politicians, hence the " bureaucracy-ness".