Upvote for mentioning Volt.

"EU bad because I'm to lazy to check what or how it works"

The Spitzenkandidaten thing was probably the one meaningful thing that Martin Schulz actually deserves credit for, that I know of

@sempersuffragium9951

9 ай бұрын

Doesn't seem that great to me. Euroskeptics are banned from serving on the commission by the treaties, so however I vote I'll end up with a growing EU beurocracy

@patrickstar686

4 ай бұрын

Doesn't seem great at all. This is how the US ended up with a two party system after all. If you don't want the Spitzenkandidat to end up being from a party you really don't like then you have to vote for one that has a realistic chance to win - not one that really aligns with the policies you support. It puts an even greater gap between what individuals want directly and gives politicians even more opportunity to promise one thing and do another because they are the only "sensible" choice.

Good vídeo like always, keep up with this stuff

Quick and Informative as always, keep it up!

You're doing great job, man. Please continue! We need this!

really good video!

Very helpful, thank you for the video!

Great video man.

Really good video and really good links!! Thank you!! I hope more people will see this before the elections

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome. Feel free to share the link ;)

I love your voice and pronunciation!! Great info, btw, I am using this as part of the preparation for my job.

@Ciceroni1

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the compliment! Glad to hear our videos help you with your job!:)

I really like the format, but it seemed as though quite a lot of content - and more complicated content - was thrown in at the end. Some might find this a bit overwhelming, and you don't want them to write off the video because they were confused at the end. Definitely keep it up, though.

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! Which complicated content are you referring to specifically? We will try to make another one with some more information and could use your suggestions ;) Besides that, it remains a struggle to find a good balance between speed, content and keeping the video short...

So great :D

In Ukraine we only know that the EU has some kind of cool technocratic bureaucracy to monitor member nations and also probably maybe strict regulations on something or maybe not whatever that means

An Awesome video ;)

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Are there any more video's on the EU coming up? Elections are coming and I find it hard to look up reliable and digestable information as to how each party actually voted, while at the same time trying to avoid all the misinformation people honestly believe about the EU.

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

We have videos explaining the workings of the EU and might make some others before the elections, not sure if we will go into how parties voted because that would be a lot of parties to cover... We'll do our best!

@MarkWilliams-mo5ic

11 ай бұрын

Wot a con job lol :- The unelected corrupt parasitic eu government no country no people no commodities how does it finance its self lol MEMBER state corrupt home governments trick taxpayers into financeing it? Why? Because member state corrupt governments own and control the corrupt unelected parasitic eu government via meps to force unpopular undemocratic laws on member state populations lol ask why does a country need two government's lol

Who chooses the leader of each Parliamentary group? For example: say the biggest group is the Greens. Do the collective Green members make the choice?

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, each group chooses their leader internally and presents him/her prior to the elections.

@robertjarman3703

3 жыл бұрын

Most groups as far as I know hold international conferences, much like a party congress can. In particular they can act a lot like the way the German federal parties operate; most of the campaigning and the determination of party lists is made at the state and local level, but the federal party provides guidance, a common manifesto, and a leader to be candidate for the executive.

Btw you said the person from the leading party *could* be the president. Has this happened before?

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

We say could, because it is not formally guaranteed. However the parliament has agreed to only accept candidates that were the winning Spitzenkandidat. The first time this was done was in 2014;)

I would really want to know more about the parties in the EU, so I know who to vote for. Ik zou graag meer weten over de fracties in de EU, zodat ik een beter beeld heb op wie ik moet stemmen

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

Due to the national parties, the available parties to vote for depends on which country you are voting in. Are you Dutch?

@augustus331

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ciceroni1 Yep. Had je beschrijving nog niet gelezen, heb me inmiddels ingelezen in de partijen en welke Nederlandse partijen bij welke fractie horen!

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

@@augustus331 Top! Laat maar weten als je nog vragen hebt!

It's a talking shop.

0:01 "You already voted in the LOCAL and national elections" Monaco, San Marino, Andorra and Liechtenstein, who don't have local elections, but only general elections: I don't have such weaknesses

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. What you might find interesting is that citizens of those four countries actually don't vote in EP elections since they are not member states of the EU ;)

@ottovalkamo1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ciceroni1 Ah good point though :) I wanted to use that Anakin meme template

So if i vote for SD in sweden, PiS can get more power in poland?

@Ciceroni1

4 жыл бұрын

No, not exactly. Parties in the same European Parliament (EP) group work together, so voting for one party give other parties in the same European Group more power there. It has no influence on the power in national parliaments. Also, while it increases the power on the European level, it is only indirectly. European Groups work together but don't always agree on all points, so they don't always vote exactly the same. In case of for example PiS and Fidesz, you see that a lot of parties that are in the same group with them, don't really agree on a lot of points.

Are you Dutch?

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

Partly, yes ;)

@nomore9004

4 жыл бұрын

Ciceroni Flamish?

Very good, but almost a little bit too quick speaking. You spoke slower in the other ones. It would be difficult for me to show this to others who didn't know about the EU because English isn't their first language. EC and EP explained was easier to follow. Just some feedback. :)

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for your feedback! I'll try to speak slower next time. It remains difficult to find a balance between keeping the video short and not speaking too fast... Btw, if you want to show it to others who speak another language, feel free to add subtitles in other languages if you can :) We currently only have English subtitles, but would love some other languages!

@GTA5Player1

5 жыл бұрын

I watched the video at double speed personally. Maybe you could try like 0.75 speed, if you have any issues.

@foorack

5 жыл бұрын

@@GTA5Player1 I am not having an issue. But I think people I would show this to would. The standard speed should be a speed everyone can follow, even if their native language is not English.

You act like Id would have a say in the actual policy and laws being signed off but that's just false. It's a representative democracy. I get to vote for parties that has some vague alignment and make some promises but it's really not uncommon for them to say one thing and do another.

@Ciceroni1

2 ай бұрын

You indeed have an indirect say, unless you get yourself elected. And you are also right that some parties and politicians say one thing and do another. That is detrimental to a democracy. So I would also strongly consider voting for those that you think do keep to their promises. Only if we all do that, other politicians will see the cost of lying :)

1:43 how is the eu council formed? As in how are the members of it chosen

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

The European council consists of the heads of state or government (depends on the country) of the member states. The Council of the European Union consists of the government ministers of the member states. Depending on the subject different ministers come together (agricultural ministers on agricultural issues etc) More info in our video on the Council kzread.info/dash/bejne/X56O15KlhbinlbA.html

As a German hearing the word "Spitzenkandidat" in an englsih vodeo is pretty jaarring

@Ciceroni1

2 ай бұрын

Haha it is the official word for it. Doesn't seem like the best choice for speakers of most other languages, but the EU likes things complicated :P

The EU government is currently in a coalition with the main center left, center right and neoliberal party. How does it even pass laws through such a coalition. And 20% are "far-right" or oppose the EU's existence entirely. No wonder it doesn't give parliament the right to actually propose legislation, because it would be a horrible mess. It seems like the EU has stretched itself too far. It should have stayed as a single market and customs union only. And free movement for those who want it. This political project is just another cake of bureaucracy that becomes an interest group itself. And unlike national parliaments, is not flexible or responsive to the public.

@Ciceroni1

4 жыл бұрын

Reading your comment, I assume you are from a country not used to coalition governments. It's understandable that if you are used to a system like the UK or US, that such coalitions seem unworkable. However, for many countries in Europe coalitions with multiple parties are the standard. Generally this works quite well even when parties within the coalition are politically quite diverse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_coalition_governments Having said that, the fact that there are parties that want to abolish the very parliament they’re in, is fairly unique to the EU. Can we downscale the EU to a common market without common economic policies or rules? Or should we create a directly elected European government to make the system more democratic and effective? What would your solution be?

@robertjarman3703

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ciceroni1 I think having better systems and more consistent ones for national parties might be helpful. The UK had a first past the post system, and the UK has very little experience with true coalition systems and the idea that a plurality vote is generally enough to pass a law, and this also changed the way English speaking people can often think. Poland's ruling coalition got a lot of seats in the 2015 and 2019 elections but did not in fact reach a majority. A German style mathematical system or maybe Denmark's leveling seats would have forced Poland to be much more like a true parliamentary system, that tends to break down more in a majority government where in Poland in particular, so much of the progress of the country would depend on coalition or minority governments passing laws in cooperation. Internal party democracy would be helpful as well. It's often hard to see where parties' internal democracy lies, and while that's bad enough in the West, it's even worse in much of Eastern Europe where also a lot of the worst of the corruption and unholy marriages with extreme or authoritarian moves happen. The president of the Polish PiS party has been in that role since 2003, a rather long time, and has been not really reconfirmed as party leader and has not set up structures to be an inclusive party that generates policy proposals on a mass membership. You might also want to consider making sure that member states have relatively regional elections, so dividing them up into say three constituencies of 17 rather than one constituency with 51, provided you also have some leveling seats just in case to make the math right on the largest scales. Open lists may also help people feel like they matter in this deliberation as well. Another possibility could be forcing the Council to vote on the spitzenkandidate, or have the Parliament vote first to propose a nominee not the other way around, and to permit a vote of no confidence by a lower margin like 3/5 or a majority or absolute majority, possibly with constructive votes of no confidence, forcing the national governments to decide on the people's leaders. The Council and a good chunk of the EU's workings depends on national governments working well and the parties doing so too. If a statement like the EU has failed an audit check gets around without people knowing that the context is that most of the true fraud happens at the member state levels, people stop trusting the EU. Another failure point is that external problems hinder the EU. Russia's foreign policy with a lack of a great way to keep international threats down exposes the EU to risk. That the EU has very little practical power to suppress corruption and intrigue in say Hungary or a border state vulnerable to Russian espionage but is bound to respect these member states and their votes makes it much easier to get your foot in the door if you want to poison your dissidents. Russia's foreign policy often focuses deliberately on making people distrust democracy via electing the worst possible people to office, sowing as much chaos as possible, laundering money through the worst leaks, and generally making people dissatisfied with the democratic process and the achievements the EU has brought, so with so few measures to prevent this like how the FBI can arrest even the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives for massive bribery charges (which they did), there is much difficulty with making the EU an inspiration for nations. America also didn't help much. Obama warmed relations but their espionage program, even spying on Merkel without reason, soured relations badly, and America in general destabilizing areas that hurt the EU like indirectly cascading problems to lead to a refugee crisis in the Middle East and some parts of Africa make people hate the EU even more. With a president that actively undermines democracy, and America as a whole is hugely unequal but yet is one of the biggest sources of news in the world and a lot of the foreign policy in the world since decolonization, it makes it hard to see the EU as a competent alternative. Other democracies have had failures with democracy as well. India has no proportional representation in any directly elected legislative body and so in a country dependent on statutory laws, that makes things really bad really fast, despite also having huge potential. Israel isn't really rejecting democracy itself but it's association with Palestine makes Israel less a beacon of democracy and more like in the vision of its detractors, an imperialist state, and Europe's dark history with Judaism for obvious reasons wanting to help a Jewish state survive and recover makes the EU look like it's tied up with all these antisemitic conspiracies. The EU's laws often help larger corporations, and ordinary people, while they have benefited, also haven't shared in the prosperity equally or in much of a way that makes it even look equal. So the EU looks from that angle to be a big corporate backer. The EU's common currency suffered from many of the same problems, and it depended too much on member state enforcement with too little oversight and too little power to meaningfully punish those who break the core tenants of the Euro, leading to mass crisis among many states and made it look like an international currency was impossible and just corporatist, not an image aided by the German and French banks that looked to be self dealing. Some of these conflicts are winding down like the Syrian Civil War looks like it's in the negotiation phase and has seen a big decline in shooting phases, but others are much ongoing.

VOLT!

thr EU Parliament and Commission are a dumb idea. EU should have just remained a economic development and free trade organisation between European countries. and the Euro currency? also stupid. individual countries having control over their own national currencies creates stability and could overcome a economic crisis. perfect example? Greece.

@Ciceroni1

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure it's a "dumb idea" as a whole. There are many advantages to joining up on the political front too. Especially in a world of giants.. On the Euro however, I think we can all agree that it wasn't well thought out.. A common currency without common fiscal policy.. Bit cart before the horse..

UKIP UKIP UKIP UKIP and who ever it is in your own country Democracy must rule

@EricvanWickern

5 жыл бұрын

You decided to give up your right to that

@ronaldonmg

Жыл бұрын

Democracy? Here in the netherlands the biggest anti-EU party is the only one that hasn't got any members.