It's great to see someone, who shines a light on a topic, that so many Europeans do not understand at all. Keep it up!

Ciceroni, can you make a video about European elections in 2019? People have absolutely no idea how voting works in the EU. I would suggest you to cover areas of European parties and groups, their relationship to national parties, Lead Candidate/Spitzenkandidat process including the ongoing dispute between Parliament and European Council on this process. And perhaps some basic CV of candidates as soon as primaries end.

@Ciceroni1

6 жыл бұрын

We are currently discussing how to do it exactly but we certainly will make a video explaining the election in the near future. Thanks for the input, really helpful :) On top of that, we are thinking of some other things with regard to the upcoming elections. So if you have any good ideas, please let us know!

Another amazing video, love this EU series! This channel deserves more subs!

Asterisks... Asterisks everywhere... (great vid! happy to see unbiased description rather than opinion for once )

Trigger waning: In 0:35 the circle diagram shows a 25-75% instead of the 20-80% This ocd keeps me alive Also hi im from dutchland to

@ComradeHellas

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah true

Very informative yet easy to understand video, good job!

Hey ciceroni, im a brand new sub! Great videos. Can i suggest doing one on how the european court of justice works as well?

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Jim, we’ll try to get around to doing that :) thanks for the suggestion!

Hello, there's a slight language error at 2.28 (seize instead of cease). Otherwise great video!

@Ciceroni1

6 жыл бұрын

Damn... Where were you before I posted it?;) Thanks for pointing it out though!

Great content

Thank you! (the cool thing about the EU is that we are never short of things to say for our videos :P )

Well made

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

Ευχαριστώ

Wow, keep doing this kind of stuff, you have earned another subscriber

@Ciceroni1

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! We will;)

No, WHERE DOES IT ACTUALLY GO??????

People complain that the EU is too bureaucratic and inefficient, and yet they wish for it to be more democratic and for each EU citizen to have a say in European legislation, which would only make it infinitely slower. Although the argument that the EU is undemocratic is slightly dubious (given representative democracy in institutions), it seems to me people just like to complain.

@Agsey

5 жыл бұрын

Anti democratic not undemocratic

@alanwilliams3677

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, democracy is overrated.

@GETJUSTICE4U

3 жыл бұрын

There are many out there who fear there is not much in the way of democracy (aka Democritus) in the world today. Never has been and probably never will be. If you want to know who rules one, ascertain who one is not allowed to criticise. If you want to know who one is not allowed to criticise, check out the plight of Assange.

Not that it matters now but purely from a tactical point of view, David Cameron should have enlisted the support of the European Union during that referendum campaign. This is a highly detailed institution and the people driving the remain campaign simply weren't equipped to deliver this message.

We were told that the Common Market was conceived to lessen bureaucracy ???????.

@Ciceroni1

4 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly, this is already less complicated than the alternative ;) The EU is unbelievably complicated at times but this is still easier than it would be without common legislation. Imagine the complication in 27 countries, each with their own standards, rules and legislation and all of them trying to get the best deal for themselves. And they all make deals only with one other country at a time. So when France and Italy finalise a deal, Germany (and every other country) needs to revise its deal with both to see if it still works out best for them and then possibly renegotiate, which in turn makes every other country reconsider. Imagine the amount of people needed to manage that ever changing playing field. And the cost of maintaining that bureaucracy for each country.

great video!

I voted to stay in the "common market" in 1975. I was conned (Edward Heath admitted he lied to the British public several years later). The EU Commission is just a modern version of the old USSR polit bureau (as Gorbachev pointed out at an event in Paris several years ago). The polit bureau creates the laws, the MEPs merely rubber stamp them with no ability to alter these laws in any meaningful way. Guy verhofstadt compared the EU 7 year economic plan with the soviet union 5 year economic plan. What a giveaway! Altiero Spinelli's (1907-1986) name is above the main entrance to the EU. Spinelli was an Italian communist who set out a manifesto which is being followed by the EU. Comedian Alexi Sayle has in his autobiography (and used it in an interview by remote camera) that his parents (both communists) attended meetings where it was discussed how and when they (communists) would take over the world.I though it was just a comedic tale but he was trying to warn us (obvious now). The European elections are just an illusion of democracy. The whole reason for the EU is to replace Europeans with a low IQ, mixed race. Any financial arguments are just a smokescreen as suggested by Jean Monnet, co-founder of the EEC who died in 1978. That is the plan. Look it up! The Barcelona Decalaration 1995 (relates to importing muslims), the Marrakesh Declaration 2018 (relates to importing sub saharan Africans) and the UN migration Pact 2018 all facilitate the replacement of Europeans as stated in Practical Idealism. They were trying to do this very gradually but the recent "crisis" has illuminated their plan. (This "migrant crisis" itself was orchestrated by the UN in 2000, so not really a "crisis".) Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi wrote "Practical Idealism" in 1923. The EU is based on this book. He designed the flag and suggested Beethoven's Ode to Joy as it's anthem. Those of us who have woken up should have JSBach's "sleepers awake" from Cantata No.40 perhaps. In December 2018, junker admitted coudenhove-kalergi's influence in the creation of the EU (maybe he thought if the cat's out of the bag, why deny it?). For decades Europeans were told to reduce family size to save the planet (the guardian was still printing this in 2017!). Africa's population is exploding (seems africans were not told to save the planet!). Junker and his puppy,macron, are going to import 200 million Africans in the next 20 years becuase of falling birthrate. Why not just encourage Europeans to have more babies....or doesn't that fit the coudenhove-kalergi plan? We're told that automation will replace employment in many sectors (Apple have recently opened a store without staff). What will all these africans do all day?

@ig72games__ita67

5 жыл бұрын

Mind me if I argue on your point, EU is not only that: I am an Italian student who will soon move to Denmark as a EU citizen I benefit of not paying anything for University and I get financially supported by the government to sustain myself in an economical matter, and I got helped even bureaucratically when it comes to papers and such. Other than that, this applies not only to me, but for all the students from all EU countries, and here too we do sustain even British citizens when they come in Italy to study. I am not saying this randomically, this is just an example of a flawed EU, who needs to be fixed in many things, has achieved lots of successes and there won't be any sort of "ethnical" replacement by subsaharian people as still their population in EU doesn't even reach the 4% of total EU population, and even your belevoled UK has way more minorities like Indians than substantially count more than refugees. Not only that, the immigration crisis has been slowed and is now getting to a halt, but still needs to be tackled more when it comes to sending the unwelcomed immigrants back, but it needs time: after all Rome wasn't built in one day. (200 million Africans is also such a fake bullshit, like you're thinking that Marcon will get 1/5 of the whole African population and send it to Europe, like mate, use real data) Also as a plus the European market is instituted using the capitalistic mindset of the free trade, yet I haven't seen any labeled production imposed by the EU government so as someone who has studied the actual USSR political-economical structure, it is not correct at all. You can't literally just pretend that EU is "communist" because one entrance is called "Spinelli" since that guy, even if he was a communist partisan in WW2, thought side by side with you Britons and Americans and believed in the achievement of an United free European Union. Damn you euroskeptics need to learn a thing or two about economy and real history, scrapping all the propaganda away, and just focusing on real objectives facts and data.

@ig72games__ita67

4 жыл бұрын

@Teresa Watts go tell it to the Parliament who ratified a law that doesn't let Boris Johnson leave the EU on the 31st of October without a deal.

@elguapo1507

3 жыл бұрын

@@ig72games__ita67 You sound like an intelligent young man and I hope your education's going well. I'm interested in hearing if any of your thoughts have changed as a result of more recent political and economic changes within Italy and Europe as a whole? You were right about the UK parliament fighting to support the pro EU position and it was actually something that angered and upset me at the time. Not because it was pro EU but because it was anti British. It represented a put-down of the people who had decided in a referendum to tell parliament to leave the EU. It represented the beginning of the end of British democracy in my mind. Now I see more people in the EU talking about being shackled to the Euro and the EU and with the recent EU budget battles by the state's leaders plus the Covid 19 package, is there anything at all that you would consider is an indication that the EU isn't the organisation you believed in 10 months ago?

@ruzicas.5819

8 ай бұрын

Pls, take your pills!

2:18 you meant cease to exist? Neat video though

@Ciceroni1

6 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah, another example that one should never rush and that some extra eyes might be nice before we upload a video to the public. Thanks for pointing it out though:)

You miswrote "cease" as seize apart from it well done video.

@Ciceroni1

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the correction

"We but won't go into detail about how exactly it is spent, that is a subject for another video" - It is literally in the title of your video: "(And where does it go?)"!!

@Ciceroni1

4 жыл бұрын

We briefly explain where it does go, but not in detail as that would take a really long time. There are thousands of projects funded through the EU. So giving a full overview isn’t possible in this short video;)

How much power do the German counsellor have with in the EU and over the EU?

@Ciceroni1

5 жыл бұрын

Officially the German Chancellor has 1 vote like everyone else. But realistically her vote holds more sway in the European Council and Council of the EU than those of smaller countries. Simply due to how diplomacy and bilateral relationships work. So while each country has only one vote, the larger and richer countries do have a stronger position in certain negotiations. On the other hand, in case of the most important decisions all Member States must agree. So even Malta could veto a decision against the will of Germany and all the other countries. Does this answer your question? or do you have a more specific question?

@nomore9004

5 жыл бұрын

Have you seen the emperor Markel meme?

@ig72games__ita67

5 жыл бұрын

@@nomore9004 bro if you study politics and economy through memes, I swear it means that we all don't deserve democracy at this point.

From Charles Ponzi?

@Ciceroni1

2 ай бұрын

If only...

Thank you for this video. It was really educational. 🙂 However the discounts and rebate some countries get doesn't seem that fair. 🤔 Why only those specific countries and that the others has to pick up the bill.

@Ciceroni1

6 жыл бұрын

The problem with fair is that not everyone agrees on what is fair. The governments that got those rebates argued that it would be unfair without them. The good news is that the Commission proposed to get rid of all rebates during the new financial period. So let’s wait and see if the national governments agree to that:) As to the reason why some countries got a rebate: negotiations. Each Member State tries to get the best possible deal, or in other words pay as little as possible while getting as much as possible. The countries that managed to get the rebates played their cards right (or had the better cards to begin with).

@maloresoc2207

4 жыл бұрын

@Teresa Watts I think tax should be progressive. Rich countries should pay more than poor ones.

@maloresoc2207

4 жыл бұрын

@Teresa Watts how can you say that money would be better spent in your country than in others? I think richer countries should help poorer ones because it's right and because if poor countries become richer it will counteract social dumping and economic migration within EU, so every european country will benefit.

@maloresoc2207

4 жыл бұрын

@Teresa Watts ok, so Innner London inhabitants should say: sod the other regions. Inner London first.

@JazzFunkNobby1964

Жыл бұрын

@@maloresoc2207 Yes let's all reward failure.

2:14 did you do a Thatcher accent 😂

@Ciceroni1

6 жыл бұрын

Did I? If so, it was on purpose of course:)

This confirms how right I was to vote to leave this nonsense. Thank you!!!

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear you still agree with your decision, would have been a shame for you otherwise. Could you explain why you think its nonsense?:)

@sadiosuarez7522

3 жыл бұрын

17.4 million likes with you m8

Briton did the best think ever to be out some states make profit like France drive from Brussels to strasbourg all the time and France collect money curse the lorrys drive in France motorway eu should break very soon hope other states do the same

Within the first min you called it a national government. Its not

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

We don’t say it’s a national government. But just like revenue from national governments it comes in different forms and sizes.

Just don’t give any money to romania and other countries that don’t remove special pensions, they get 4000euro while our grandmas, parents that worked a lifetime get only ~250euro

Great looking clip, but some inaccuracies this way or that way. As they say, why ruin a good story with facts..

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

Could you tell us which inaccuracies you think you found? All mistakes that are pointed out are put into the description as correction:)

Someone should make a political drama out of this for real

@Ciceroni1

Жыл бұрын

Haha if you write it, we’ll supply the video;)

Haha, 'That's enough' said the eu never.

mess! it is so complicated!

What about all the bailouts?

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

The current financial support due to Covid?

The UK pays about £11bn more into the EU than it gets back. His assertion that the other EU States contribute cash to the UK is absurd. Especially since most of them are net beneficiaries and the UK is, after Germany, the second highest net contributer.

@johnwilson3871

3 жыл бұрын

oops, great looking clip, but some inaccuracies? As they say, why ruin a good story with facts..

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

The UK is the second largest contributor if looking at the operating budget but it doesn’t take into account the size of the economy and population. Comparing 60 million UK citizens’ contribution to that of 500.000 Luxemburgers is not really accurate. At least, no matter how much Luxemburgers would pay, they would always pay less as a group than Brits. We made a video about these net contributions to see the many ways in which you can see these statistics. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJN2scZunKqYqLQ.html

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

@john wilson. Please let us know which “inaccuracies” you found. Corrections are made for mistakes that are pointed out.

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

@@captcrunch7961 I'm not sure if you mean us with "EU types", but if so, where are we ignoring facts? We'd be happy to correct it :)

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

@@captcrunch7961 Great, but first, could you let us know which facts we have missed?

The money comes from the tax payer and is spent very often very ineffectively with a long history of corruption at all levels within the spending process. That all we really need to know.

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

could the same not be said about national government?

@icarus877

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ciceroni1 Hurrah. Of course but the difference is it's very difficult to influence or control the direction of the EU and has been for decades, it's called a lack of democracy.

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

According to us, some democratic deficits indeed exist in the EU, but so it does in many national governments. For example, how democratic do you feel the House of Lords is? Or the first past the post system in electing members of the House of Commons?

@icarus877

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ciceroni1 The house of Lords is pretty irrelevant, it doesn't really have any power it is a checks and balance with no power to instigate legislation a little like the house of MEP's in the EU. First past the post system is by no means perfect however it does ensure legislation for real change can occur. Proportional representation can work but all so often it leads to deadlock hence the EU love it. The EU doesn't provide alternatives to the voter it purports to serve. It ignores democratic votes and overturns decisions made by the people, it is antidemocratic.

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

​@@icarus877 But do you think a body of unelected nobles should be doing "checks and balances" on an democratically elected body? Sounds rather undemocratic. And I see many options of electoral systems in and outside the EU that provide alternatives to the first past the post and are no deadlock (I also don't see where you see all the deadlocks happening outside of the UK). I think its a bit extreme to say the EU is antidemocratic. while I think it has its democratic flaws all its major decisions are made by either the democratically elected leaders of the member states and by the directly elected parliament.

The Italian Mafia gets a good chunk and the French farmers.

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

True, that again highlights a complicated part of the EU. Money that is distributed is mostly dealt with on a national level. That means that the Italian national mafia problem, also is visible here. However, the question here is, could you do this differently while still achieving the same goals?

Seems to me it's like using one credit card to pay off the debt on another.

When you see a donkey on the street in Portugal and cars without wheels the further east you go... You quickly realized... This is a mess.

This video is well explained, and unknowingly, reveals how absurd the EU's fiscal policy is. The EU and ECB doesn't have to collect any taxes at all in order to spend into the EuroZone

Comes from Germany and uk then gets spent on the other 26 countries

@Ciceroni1

4 жыл бұрын

Are you sure you watched it? Seems like you missed a lot:P

@canzukcommonwealth7309

4 жыл бұрын

Ciceroni tbh I was a little drab! But considering the way the Uk has been treated by the Eu I have a biased view on the EU Not Europeans

@Ciceroni1

4 жыл бұрын

Well its good to hear your opinion on your fellow Europeans is still positive:) As for the EU, I think saying it like that is too one sided. You can disagree with a certain system of course, but putting all the blame for a situation with the other party is rarely helpful ;)

@canzukcommonwealth7309

4 жыл бұрын

Ciceroni nothing at all against european people I love the cultures countries, etc but I can’t be far off, Italy has had enough of the Eu, along with other countries, I think it’s a bad idea of political union and ever closeness. What happened to the original idea of just a free trade area and each country managed its own affairs.

@accountreality1988

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ciceroni1 funny right now most anti-british propaganda is coming from Europhiles. the eu was meant to be set up to unite European but right now the eu is the one doing the dividing.

England not Europe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

it comes from the poor and goes into the slush fund for those in charge. SIMPLES!

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

While I fully agree money could be spent better in some of the cases, what do you mean exactly with these slush funds?

Another words we paid more than other EU countries what a joke what a scandal and you talk crap my supposed to be free trade free trade doesn’t cost 13 billion every year you talk crap

@Ciceroni1

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your thoughts.. Not sure exactly who 'you' and 'we' are, or what you're trying to say but we're very glad you got it off your chest!

They look money from Africa and Asia and soth America back in the old days thats why they have money while Africa continues remain poor continent who care about Africa

@Ciceroni1

2 ай бұрын

What do you think could be done to make Africa prosperous?

Rubbish any rebate is not paid for my anyone as only countries that pay into the EU pay anything. So the U k would pay some other countries rebate as part of their net contribution. This is just a smokescreen as it does not happen. No country receives cash as a rebate just they pay less. The only countries that receive cash or the countries with a negative contribution. The money the U.K. and other countries who receive so called rebates are told how to spend the money they don’t send.

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

True, but isn't it the same outcome? Whether you are paying money or paying money and getting it back afterwards, you have the money in pocket. So the UK, with its rebate, paid less than it should have according the the agreed rules.

@classicraceruk1337

3 жыл бұрын

Ciceroni It was not a rebate the U.K. which was not the largest economy in the EU was set to become its largest single contributor. The EU budget after this should never have been the size it was after the (rebate )happened. Live within your means comes to mind. So the calculation which added this unreal money in should have been amended. This still left the U.K. one of the top 2 or 3 net gifters to the EU.

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

@@classicraceruk1337 Well I feel like you are of the opinion the UK paid too much for the UK. Apart from that though, all countries paid contributions based on the same calculation. The UK didn't, they got a rebate on the amount calculated according to the common formula. That being said, discussing who is the largest contributor is a rather difficult discussion, we made a video about it. Would be nice to hear your view on that video :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJN2scZunKqYqLQ.html

@classicraceruk1337

3 жыл бұрын

Ciceroni All countries pay you need to look at the EU website. I have no time for any formula my tax payments are my concern and where the money is spent. I also see no point in a huge a political machine costing a fortune when an FTA in Europe achieves the same. Just for info laround half the EU countries pay anything into the EU some are paid to be in. So please do not spout calculations to me.

@Ciceroni1

3 жыл бұрын

Your tax payments are indeed your concern. If you look at them you would see that you as a Brit on average work 129 days per year to pay off your national taxes and a whopping 2 days to pay your EU taxes. Not such a fortune after all, is it;)