How Does the EU Actually Work?

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  • Опубліковано 14 жов 2024

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  • @TheAtlantic
    @TheAtlantic  5 років тому +18

    In recent years, nationalist movements have gained ground in the EU, a phenomenon some have dubbed the "Trump Effect." Watch our video to understand the connection: ua-cam.com/video/2OM2FWzropI/v-deo.html

    • @fellowcitizen
      @fellowcitizen 5 років тому +1

      Tge Trump Effect is a SYMPTOM, the basis of which is corruption of the state by NeoLiberals+NeoCons like the Clintonite and Boltonite mafias. The Left is left unrepresented and smeared.

    • @sidremus
      @sidremus 5 років тому

      Please refrain from fueling this narrative. The media has done it's lion share of often blindly echoing the far right when it focuses so much on them. They're not a defining feature of our society, yet they're always made out to be. At least half of their power comes from the almost constant fear-mongerig about their apparently always imminent rise to absolute power.
      Yes, they're there, yes, it's worrying. But most EU countries are still liberal democracies with functioning governments. And the people living here have other things to worry about but a right wing power grab

    • @lw1zfog
      @lw1zfog 2 роки тому

      hahahahahaha, desperate propaganda from the cabal, divide & conquer, Ordo ab Chao

  • @toyotaprius79
    @toyotaprius79 5 років тому +29

    This Spring?
    wth Atlantic? How late was this? Also, please acknowledge the *baytaaas* lumming away in the comments, toxically/ironically calling the eu toxic, etc.

  • @aluisious
    @aluisious 5 років тому +24

    You keep talking about separation of powers but you have two institutions that are legislative and executive. Doesn't sound like a separation at all, they sound like they are where the actual power resides.

  • @Dunit1117
    @Dunit1117 29 днів тому

    It’s refreshing to have something explained in a slow, relaxed way with gaps in between the sentences

  • @ahmedhazbar6880
    @ahmedhazbar6880 4 роки тому +7

    This system is so complex. How do EU countries keep up

    • @ofjeworstlust69
      @ofjeworstlust69 3 роки тому +1

      only the politicians really understand, the people (usually) don't

  • @FATMIKED5183
    @FATMIKED5183 4 роки тому +6

    So when explaining the legislative branch,you're basically saying that the interests of the goverments of the member states are not necessarily in line with that of the people who make up those states.And you need a mediator.

    • @isaacfrazier9050
      @isaacfrazier9050 3 роки тому +1

      It's an admission of European state authoritarianism, really. A telling admission, but also a pragmatic solution.

    • @raushanaljufri
      @raushanaljufri 2 роки тому +1

      It's somewhat similar to the old US Senate i think... it used to be that Senators were appointed by state legislatures to represent the interests of the states as a whole, as opposed to the direct interests of the people found in the house of representatives

    • @freekingfreaking246
      @freekingfreaking246 2 роки тому +3

      that's incorrect. The legistive branch has two chambers, similar to how most countries do. One of them represents the interest of the european people, like the deputy chamber in most countries. And the other represents the interest of the States, like the Senate in most countries.
      Now pay attention to the word I used. State. Not goverment. So no, the Council of the EU is not there to represent any goverment whatsoever, it is there to represent the interest of their member states, in other words, the interest of each specific country that is member of the EU.
      This system exists in this fashion bc sometimes you can have a single member state dominate the deputy chamber, bc it is the most populous state. Think of idk France and Germany compared to smaller countries like Belgium or Luxembourg. Imagine the EU congress was trying to pass a law that would benefit the bigger countries. Bc they have a bigger population, it's likely most of the deputies in the deputy chamber will be from those major countries, so this law that benefits them might pass on the deputy chamber, in this case, the EU parliament. But every law has to pass both chambers, so both the deputy chamber (EU parliament) and the Senate (Council of the EU). So when the law then goes to the Council/Senate, the law might get rejected, because there each country has the exact same amount of senators/council members, so the smaller countries might be able to get together vote against this bill that tries to benefit only the bigger countries.
      Likewise, there could be a bill that tries to benefit only the smaller countries. In that scenario, it would be the EU parliament that would keep them from doing so, bc the parliament has elected officials in proportions similar to the amount of citizens there are in the EU. So if MOST citizens are from major countries, then most parliament members are from major countries and therefore such bill that benefits small countries will not pass.
      This is how the system works in most double-chamber countries and it's sad that citizens are ignorant about how their own goverment works.

    • @lemonadeinmyveins9078
      @lemonadeinmyveins9078 Рік тому +1

      ​@@freekingfreaking246 beautiful insight! thank you :)

  • @jwjgreenwood9806
    @jwjgreenwood9806 3 роки тому +2

    Misses the main pint-the parliament doesn’t legislate the commission does and the commission wasn’t elected by anyone- major problem!

    • @thatsmeman780
      @thatsmeman780 Місяць тому

      The commissioners are directly nominated by our own heads of state, and have to be formally elected by the European parliament. Both of which have been voted on directly by European voters. There is not a problem here at all. It is only the anglos that have a judicial problem with devolving power in this way. Furthermore anything the commission does, has to be accepted by both the heads of state and the European parliament.

  • @sidremus
    @sidremus 5 років тому +10

    The video kinda made it look like voting for the European Parlament is answering a Yes/No question on whether we want the EU to happen. By framing the narrative this way right wing populism is given a 50% hold on the answers. You're either for them or for all the other parties. However, this doesn't reflect my voting process at all. If you're for the EU, which the vast majority of the Europeans are, then you're actually voting on very different issues and for much more varied reasons. It's a shame that media organizations always seem to focus so much on the stay/leave narrative when it's not anywhere close to most people's minds.

    • @annae4282
      @annae4282 5 років тому +6

      Heya Sidremus! The director here. I entirely agree that the question about the EU has been simplified to a nationalist vs multilateralist one. The various colours within the EP have been pointed out in its explanation, but we had to simplify the main narrative to fit the elections this past May where this was very much one of the main concerns (it still seems to be). Since we already had to put a lot of information in a very short amount of time we chose to do it this way. We'll be making more films around the subject though and since the foundation has been set we will be able to go deeper into various EU-related topics without having to explain the basics.
      (by the way: this media organisation is extremely tiny (we are two, the writer and the director/animator) and were working on this pro bono. This might explain the length of the video ;))

  • @shoulders-of-giants
    @shoulders-of-giants 5 років тому +18

    *Voting isn't everything*
    There is activism, and political engagement also helps loads ❤️

    • @FootyPolitics
      @FootyPolitics 5 років тому +3

      That is the dumbest statement that I've ever seen.

    • @davebalmada
      @davebalmada 5 років тому +1

      Voting is the most important action.

  • @hermanmoreno7420
    @hermanmoreno7420 5 років тому +1

    Best way to do this is communication between Mexico and the EU as well to coordinate plans and not be quick to believe the people that are getting drove crazy by south africans

  • @shoulders-of-giants
    @shoulders-of-giants 5 років тому +19

    Europe is my nation.
    *I LOVE MY NATION* ✊❤️

    • @magnusorn7313
      @magnusorn7313 5 років тому +9

      Europe is my country, England is my city

    • @887frodo
      @887frodo 5 років тому +2

      This is nice. It kinda gives me hope for humanity.

    • @marcbiff2192
      @marcbiff2192 5 років тому

      @@magnusorn7313 Yah twerp.

    • @JacobSmith-xs3ir
      @JacobSmith-xs3ir 5 років тому

      and you will see it turned into a caliphate within your lifetime

    • @petarsaric2342
      @petarsaric2342 5 років тому +5

      Europe never was or will be my " nation ".
      My nation is Croatia and It will stay that way. We can cooperate but bounderies need to be set. The current state of the European union is an authoritarian dictatorship, imposing forcibly integrative laws and rules upon its member countries.

  • @kevinkall8547
    @kevinkall8547 5 років тому +3

    Which Union are you if you are in the bathroom?

  • @CH-rp1zl
    @CH-rp1zl Рік тому +1

    I truly admire the E.U. I know there is no perfect politician system, but the E.U. comes close.

  • @PleiadianDreams
    @PleiadianDreams 3 роки тому +1

    Napoleon + World War 2 = Bankers

  • @decnijfkris3706
    @decnijfkris3706 5 років тому +2

    Why is it that European directives are valid for all member states and that there is no European constitution valid for all member states? There is only a draft.
    Does Europe assume that all European directives are de facto constitutional and are exempt from any legal controll?
    Something is missing here from a state law point of view.
    Can you explain the order of the sources of law in the EU?

    • @giogio6974
      @giogio6974 5 років тому +2

      European constitution? Are you kidding me? 500 million people in 28 different speaking countries and cultures under the same rule of law? It is natural that the EU has actual control over member states because that would make it a tyrant and the complete opposite of the democracy it is. As explained in the video it doesn't force the law on other member states but rather discusses the best compromise. The EU has no actual power if the member states don't agree.

    • @Apodeipnon
      @Apodeipnon 5 років тому +3

      It was tried to create an EU Constitution in 2004, but it was rejected by France and the Netherlands, while it was ratified in 18 other countries. So it sadly failed.

    • @artuselias
      @artuselias 5 років тому +2

      The EU is based on international treaties.
      There is no general order of constitutional law and international law but the majority of the constitutions in most of the countries is subordinate.

    • @AntoineMackie
      @AntoineMackie 5 років тому +5

      The "constitution" of the EU is what we call the EU's primary law. It is made of the founding treaties in their amended versions: the Treaty on European Union ("TEU") and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ("TFEU"). They were last amended in 2007, with the Treaty of Lisbon, and they act as the constitutional law of the Union. They contain everything about how the institutions work, how the legislative process functions, etc. There is a legal control on directives, since the European Court of Justice has the prerogative of judicial review. However, primary law can only be changed with other treaties (which require unanimity from all Member States).

  • @coreyrutherford7231
    @coreyrutherford7231 4 роки тому +3

    This isn't biased at all!

  • @kevinkall8547
    @kevinkall8547 5 років тому

    My new thesaurus is decent. not only that, but it’s also pretty decent. I got it in europe.

  • @lukestanier3272
    @lukestanier3272 4 роки тому +1

    Let me ask you one question do you think it's ok that anyone from Europe and come to the UK with a driving licence but anyone from the UK had to have a passport to go to Europe

    • @Avacados-rw8pb
      @Avacados-rw8pb 4 роки тому +3

      Because Britain has an opt out of the schegen zone where its passport free

    • @robot4jarvis836
      @robot4jarvis836 4 роки тому +6

      1) you have decided it, don't blame us
      2) you need a passport to go to the uk even if you come from the Schengen area

    • @albinjohnsson2511
      @albinjohnsson2511 3 роки тому +2

      Superb reasonging. The UK actively decides to opt-out from an EU agreement, and then you blame the EU for not getting the benefit of said agreement? Also, you are factually incorrect. As a Swede I always had to show my passport to get into the UK, whereas I can go to Denmark or Germany without ever showing my passport. Why? Because your politicians, the national ones who you elected yourselves, decided it.

    • @grassytramtracks
      @grassytramtracks Рік тому

      A, a driving licence has never been sufficient for EU citizens to travel to the UK and the reason British citizens couldn't travel to the EU on an ID card is because the UK has never implemented ID cards nor opted to join the Schengen area. It was an entirely self imposed situation

  • @kevinkall8547
    @kevinkall8547 5 років тому +1

    Which continent are you when your fly is open and are arrested for watering the daises?

  • @Corvin_
    @Corvin_ 5 років тому +8

    Bots in comments LUL

  • @finnersmcspeed5646
    @finnersmcspeed5646 5 років тому +2

    A bit late ?

  • @johnmannion2912
    @johnmannion2912 4 роки тому

    we work at carsales

  • @4franz4
    @4franz4 5 років тому +8

    In fact, it doesn't work.

    • @LetoDK
      @LetoDK 5 років тому +4

      The EU does not agree (at least not people above a certain educational level; the rest copies the Trump-like "dey took our jobs")

  • @jwjgreenwood9806
    @jwjgreenwood9806 3 роки тому +1

    Woah Greek democracy one person one vote?!! Not if you were a slave in Athens 🤣

  • @bent5732
    @bent5732 5 років тому +19

    Don't cling to national identity. you don't need it.

    • @giogio6974
      @giogio6974 5 років тому

      say that to the brits and french...

    • @shoulders-of-giants
      @shoulders-of-giants 5 років тому +4

      Europe is my nation.
      Germany never was.

    • @petarsaric2342
      @petarsaric2342 5 років тому +3

      This is pure degeneracy. People can not thrive or be productive in enviornment where the main integrative device is an ideological mass media machine.
      Mutual integration of European state is ideologicaly based nonsence that can not and will not work, the progressive idea you have of future can not exist.
      National identity is mandatory.

  • @binalcensored2104
    @binalcensored2104 Рік тому

    Norway is the largest shareholder of mining company denounced for contamination in the Amazon. The Norwegian government, responsible for harsh criticism of environmental policies in Brazil is the main shareholder of the mining company Hydro, the target of denouncements by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) of Pará and of almost 2 thousand lawsuits for contamination of rivers and communities in Barcarena (PA), a municipality located in one of the most polluted regions of the Amazon rainforest.
    840 Billion Dollars are stolen every year in Brazil by foreign countries, just in oil. The Norwegian Minister of Finance has just announced the profit of 120 billion dollars in 2022, which will increase to 138 billion dollars in 2023, in oil. Half of that profit is from Brazilian oil. That goes to Norway, for nothing, even without paying taxes to the Brazilian State. Everything is camouflaged and manipulated to hide, deny and even encourage an increase in theft, which is why the countries that most destroy the environment put pressure on the Brazilian Amazon. Because it has huge oil reserves and they have already destroyed almost all of its forests and now they want the rest of the Brazilian wealth. Say what they say, the Amazon still exists today, which would not have happened if it had been explored by the French, Israelis, Americans, Dutch, or English. The Norwegian Royal Family Member, Erling Sven Lorentzen, married with princess Ragnhild, sister of king Harald V of Norway, attacked and robbed the lands of the Amazonian Indians Tupinikim and Guarani, his company planted more than 1 million hectars of eucaliptus and left the natives without land and later without any water.
    In addition to facing lawsuits, the Hydro company has yet to pay fines stipulated by Ibama in the amount of R$ 17 million, after an overflow of toxic mud in rivers by one of its subsidiaries in the Amazon region, in 2009. According to Ibama, the spill placed the local population at risk and generated "fish kills and significant destruction of biodiversity". But all so called rich countries are stressing for destroying all the Amazon forest, because their ego is so rotten that they still prefer money, coins and material units to buy garbage and plastic toys, than life. After destroying all their own natural resources, they dont want that Brazil keep being the only country in the world who still have a big forest, because it wasnt transformed in money, like rich countries have done!

  • @johnmannion2912
    @johnmannion2912 4 роки тому

    we love a porsche

  • @lw1zfog
    @lw1zfog 2 роки тому

    it rips off it’s collective population

  • @davidpierce2690
    @davidpierce2690 4 роки тому +4

    The parliament has no power

    • @Avacados-rw8pb
      @Avacados-rw8pb 4 роки тому +3

      It does has the power to block or pass laws

  • @ozeppeo
    @ozeppeo 5 років тому +1

    MEP Martin Sonneborn a few weeks ago:
    Brief comments on the Council's staff proposals. You are welcome to correct me, but a first brief overview will give you the following:
    Josep Borrell: A Spanish guy who had to resign as President of the European University Institute because he had forgotten to declare an annual income of EUR 300 000 to an energy supplier is to become the EU's external representative?
    Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde: A French woman who has been found guilty of embezzling 400 million euros of public money in the Tapie case, and who has never run a national central bank, should she run the ECB?
    Charles Michel: A Belgian who couldn't even form a functioning government in Belgium and who pacts with right-wing extremists should become Council President and balance increasingly complex national interests in the EU?
    Ursula vonderLeyen: An unsuccessful German minister who has only attracted attention through a mistaken tendency towards overpriced external advisers, mismanagement and euphemisms ("financial turnaround" for Germany's biggest armament effort since the end of the war) and who is supported by the illiberal Visegrád states, which previously rejected conservative Social Democrat Timmermans as a left-wing radical, is to become president of the EU Commission?
    What a parade of incompetence!
    #FCK backroom deals

    • @peterfireflylund
      @peterfireflylund 3 роки тому

      ozeppeo Timmermans? Conservative?!? What have you been smoking???

  • @johnmannion2912
    @johnmannion2912 4 роки тому

    kate is a big fan

  • @johnmannion2912
    @johnmannion2912 4 роки тому

    kate loves the video

  • @katleeshue
    @katleeshue 5 років тому +4

    Canada!!!!

    • @kxmode
      @kxmode 5 років тому +1

      sorry

    • @cresfirc7349
      @cresfirc7349 5 років тому

      Canada is not in europe. SMH

    • @katleeshue
      @katleeshue 5 років тому +1

      @@cresfirc7349 whaaa??? I've been lied to all my life. Damn my Canadian Education!

    • @pseudonymshqipe854
      @pseudonymshqipe854 5 років тому

      You're a part of the United States.

  • @pinktoes3875
    @pinktoes3875 5 років тому +3

    it used to be about improving trade. now it's about bringing the whole africa and arabia to europe. it should be renamed the refugee union

  • @hRt42kuo7jTtmk14
    @hRt42kuo7jTtmk14 5 років тому +9

    Ironic that a British woman is the one explaining how “our” EU works when the U.K. will soon exit the EU.

    • @gordonsills
      @gordonsills 5 років тому +7

      It's not ironic considering most British people would rather stay inside EU.

    • @hRt42kuo7jTtmk14
      @hRt42kuo7jTtmk14 5 років тому +1

      gordonsills I agree. That is sad.

    • @annae4282
      @annae4282 5 років тому +6

      Actually: Dutch ;)

    • @n00dle_king
      @n00dle_king 5 років тому

      "Soon..." Seeing as the only options that seem to be on the table at this point are no deal or no Brexit I think we will be seeing another extension come October 31st.

    • @hRt42kuo7jTtmk14
      @hRt42kuo7jTtmk14 5 років тому

      Adam Brown there are only two ways the EU said they will provide another extension. Those are either a new referendum vote or a general election. Short of either of those, no extension I am afraid. More here: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-delay-extension-second-referendum-general-election-a8967696.html

  • @mothermovementa
    @mothermovementa 4 роки тому +6

    They're lying

  • @MeganoOdles
    @MeganoOdles 5 років тому +5

    NATO formed well before the EU, brought lasting peace to Europe!

  • @vincentjacobsson3981
    @vincentjacobsson3981 Рік тому

    I think it should be investigated if the state(s) now and then are legislated with the Bible written as a story. The word immunity (Latin immunitas, freedom from obligations to the state) comes from a religious revelation from the Middle Ages, most likely from a pope to become lawless, and which has since been rewritten into full immunity to the kings, personal and functional immunity (legally, cannot be prosecuted for the criminal act) to the prime ministers, governments, parliaments, cabinets, and Supreme Courts for law decisions and actions. I also think it should be investigated if millions of fallen soldiers in the world wars were elected by the people or not. The political exploitation of the vital ecosystem has now led to forest death (force majeure) how will it affect people's economy, etc.
    I think the Democrat Party can be a consciously misleading party name with all parties belonging to the Conservative Party, as current political democracy and socialism can only be about going more toward the middle. The reason may be that the king (head of state) wants to govern the people with full immunity together with the European presidents, parties, senates (origin, the Roman Empire), congresses, cabinets, prime ministers, governments, parliaments, and Supreme Courts with functional immunity, personal immunity for law decisions and actions, even with the misleading word professional politician.
    I think the people should consider voting for a real democratic party with an independent state formation to investigate if the king (head of state) together with the European presidents, senates (origin, the Roman Empire), congresses, cabinets, prime ministers, governments, parliaments, and Supreme Courts overall may be guilty of a violation of democratic rights with non-popular elections, economic crimes, violation of human rights with class society for adults and children, serious environmental crime (force majeure).

  • @hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf
    @hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf 4 місяці тому

    BCE

  • @importantname
    @importantname 5 років тому +3

    one person one vote - lol.

  • @kxmode
    @kxmode 5 років тому +6

    "Works?"

  • @hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf
    @hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf 4 місяці тому

    CBETETAA

  • @Judel100
    @Judel100 5 років тому +3

    Epic fail: the commission is the sole source of legislation.

  • @fcbayern7558
    @fcbayern7558 3 роки тому +2

    FC BAYERN

  • @leejesson3368
    @leejesson3368 3 роки тому

    LeeJESSON

  • @marcbiff2192
    @marcbiff2192 5 років тому +4

    Jeez i feel dirty just watching this .

  • @TM-fr7gh
    @TM-fr7gh 2 роки тому

    Biased as hell lmao

  • @republikaekosoves1021
    @republikaekosoves1021 3 роки тому

    Plese help urgently KOSOVO with VACCINES 🇽🇰🤲🙏✔

  • @davidpierce2690
    @davidpierce2690 5 років тому +1

    EU is not democratic

  • @omegalord
    @omegalord 5 років тому +9

    Spoiler: It doesn't.

  • @abukar1993
    @abukar1993 5 років тому +3

    ah men, you're kinda late we already set the place on fire...lol

  • @Vodoriga
    @Vodoriga 5 років тому +4

    an illusion your vote makes a damn difference , makes me laugh.

    • @toyotaprius79
      @toyotaprius79 5 років тому +1

      You clearly don't vote, or live in a european country, hmm?

    • @shoulders-of-giants
      @shoulders-of-giants 5 років тому

      Activism and political engagement also helps loads ❤️

  • @5uperM
    @5uperM 5 років тому

    It don't.

  • @richardthomas1531
    @richardthomas1531 5 років тому +2

    I'd say a Larger Trump Effect is This Atlantic site ,Which as Trustworthy as gas station sushi

  • @raptorreddelta3986
    @raptorreddelta3986 5 років тому

    First

  • @EAT-TOM
    @EAT-TOM 5 років тому +2

    As a German I am the father of the European union

  • @leejesson3368
    @leejesson3368 3 роки тому

    LeeJESSON

  • @leejesson3368
    @leejesson3368 3 роки тому

    LeeJESSON