How the EU Institutions Function

Do you KNOW how the EU is governed? What are the important institutions? How they work together?
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[@MrNoOne04]

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[@krateproductions4872]

Damn that happened this year? Feels like a decade

[@quellfeuer8678]

thank you, really informative and your drawing of Wilders is really "on fleek"

[@HistoryScope]

Thank you! It's much easier to draw a person when I have a 'model'. all the best drawings are either from politicians or from my friends :)

[@masterPlol]

Damn, Belgium has 96 seats AND 21 seats? Also where is Germany?

[@reggiecorrea]

Well spotted. LOL

[@diabl2master]

All the flags are upright, but some are just stretched upwards a lot. That's the German flag but stretched up.

[@Lafayette_Ronald_Hubbard]

@@diabl2master C'mon mate, it would literally take only 2 seconds to punch "german flag" into google and see that you're wrong.

[@xxxxii24iixxxx]

The video maker put the wrong flag, but that is supposed to be Germany. Actually it appears that the middle and bottom colors were switched accidentally

[@yoyo123yt]

Your Joking right?

[@tirex3673]

2:03 and 2:13, the order of the colors of the german flag is wrong

[@HistoryScope]

The worst part is that the ONLY flag I got wrong is from the country where I live. But thanks for spotting it! I will fix it for the next episode!

[@steiraman1]

The most important point is the council and the unanimity rule, because without the council nothing gets done in the EU, so ministers out of 28 different countries need to come together and agree on something in order to get something done, and when they come home again and face concerns, they complain about the EU. This has to change. An elected chamber where member states intrests are regarder, maybe similar to the US senate and where a so called qualified mayority or maybe even a 50%+1 mayority is enough.

[@GFMkidsComedy]

Totally agree. They should replace the council of ministers with a directly elected Senate.

[@ahmetsungur]

Very simple and helpful. Thank you mate

[@michellekellogg2745]

your channel is gonna help me with my social studies

[@thattimestampguy]

0:34 European Council 🇪🇺 28 Heads of State [Chancellors, Presidents and Prime Ministers] 0:58 The Council Directed the 28 Member Comission to draft European Union Law 🇪🇺 1:28 Every member has 1/28 say in creating The Laws of the European Union 🇪🇺 1:49 The European Parliament is determined by population, with a minimum of 6 seats for everyone. 🇪🇺 2:33 2016 European Union 🇪🇺 Seating 2:55 European Union 🇪🇺 Political Parties 3:08 Parliament decides to pass or send back to the Commission 3:55 Voters tend to decide in National not European issues 4:56 The council of ministers. • Agriculture 👩🏻‍🌾 • Finance 🪙 5:39 European Court of Justice 🇪🇺 6:07 Brussels and Strasbourg 6:55 Iceland 🇮🇸 Sweden 🇸🇪 And Switzerland 🇨🇭

[@gladysify8340]

Thanks for the knowledge. Very informative.

[@Ivancukic]

Thank you for this video! Helped a lot on my exam

[@ishratkhan6887]

Awesome! My constitution law class is prepared after seeing this video today!!!!! THANK YOU!

[@danraes5661]

3:41 you’ve put the romanian flag on top of bulgaria mate🤣 great video anyway !

[@BmxBarlow]

Thank you so much for the concise information

[@lafrano]

I passed my exam because of your videos. Thanks a lot! ❤

[@Enderwiggan1]

Wow that was excellent - thank you

[@odorifero]

2:39 Rave Party is the best.

[@ymj4256]

My head hurts

[@TEXNORRIS10]

Good but way too short. Can you do one in which you talk about coreper I and II?

[@gabriels9943]

More videos please!!!

[@superraegun2649]

the European council barely got a mention. I thought is was them who gave the commission the general idea, of which they would draft the actual laws from, like the civil service. Do the European commission have power? I thought is was more independence. There is still a democratic deficit, but I didn't think it was as bad as people said, that was just Eurosceptics exaggerating the power the commission has. The problem with giving the elected members of parliament power is it makes the countries less sovereign. It's balancing on a knife's edge.

[@HistoryScope]

The reason for that is that i had to cut out a lot of stuff. I try keeping each video below 8 minutes/2 pages long so I can only give a brief overview. If I do any more I won't be able to make the 2 week deadline I give myself. The commission does indeed get their general idea from the European Council of Heads of State. The commission has the power to create laws but they have to do so within the limits of what the European Council of Ministers and the European Parliament allow. These institutions act as a balance between national and EU interests: Parliament can't pass any laws the commission doesn't want it to pass and parliament won't pass any laws they don't agree with. In recent years the commission had its power diminished as parliament acts increasingly dominant. The Eurosceptics do exaggerate, in my opinion, but the EU is a thousand compromises held together by ductape. I will talk a little bit more about this in next episode, as I feel I didn't explain very well how the balance between the states and the EU led to this mishmash. :)

[@cheydinal5401]

You could just have the European Council be directly elected within their country, like US Senators are for the last 100 years, they used to be appointed by the state legislatures. An elected Council member from Germany would only get reelected if he has the best interest of Germans in mind in his actions. The problem with heads of government effectively leading the EU is that economically powerful governments, like Germany (where I'm from) can use their vast economic resources to threaten and buy off other countries, to change their votes in the Council. They can't do that if the Council is directly elected. Right now, the EU is more of a peaceful economic battleground between nations, which is an improvement of a literal military ground but still horrible as it leads fo Greek school kids fainting in school from malnutrition during the German blackmailing in the economic crisis. Now the Greek economy has shrank by 50% over the last 10 years. What I want is for the EU to become a democratic battleground of ideas, where powerful member states can't just dominate the entire institution not because of their high population (Eastern Europe has more) but because of their economic power, as Germany and France do today.

[@edipires15]

Cheydinal well that's just the Case: the European Council is composed of heads of government directly elected by their people in each country

[@dirkdeschepper735]

@@cheydinal5401 Currently the member of the European Council is elected by each country, as it is the head of that country's government. It is directly elected and is purely focused on their own state's interests. The Commission is a permanent body that leads the civil service of the EU. As with all civil servants, they are not elected. The Council of the European Union is what the "Council of Ministers" is technically called these days. It consists of ministers of the member state governments. For states where government ministers have to be elected (which isn't the case in, for instance, the UK), this is again a set of politicians that are accountable to the electorate and that are focused on their member state interests. The democratic deficit is a federalist talking point. It refers to the fact that small states have outsized influence in the EU, which is not democratic. The EU suffers from the same "democratic deficit" as the US senate in this regard, where California has the same representation as North Dakota. An example of a state where this democratic deficit does not exist is the UK, where Scotland and England are technically equal partners, but since there is no body where this equality is actually expressed, in reality it's a vassal state (in brexiter parlance).

[@petrosbekhet6349]

Not a single dislike, because you rock. Awesome video.

[@leticiayacoub4729]

watched this for my EU policies final, thank you!!

[@taraldarion2500]

2:12 you made the belgium flag twice instad of Germany and belgium

[@Teddeskompest]

Great video! I'm certain the policy processes of the EU will be more efficient in the future. With Brexit I'm positive the EU will see it as a higher priority in order for the less politically active citizens to see it as legitimate.

[@angelinaangeliina]

Great, just absolutely fantastic, video. Thank you so much!

[@andywppl]

Well de iure Switzerland is not a member of the EEA, but has bilateral agreements with the EU that effectively make it a de facto member.

[@sionsmedia8249]

EU as a global power. You totally need the EU because that's the only way to get on par with countries like the US, or China, or Japan, ignore the fact Japan is the same size as many countries in the EU, we would never be able to stand up to them.

[@hauskalainen]

just because the EU parliament cannot modify proposed laws without consent from the commission does not make it undemocratic. It still means that laws that ARE passed still have consent from the democratic elected representatives of the people. After all the House of Lords is not democratically elected and yet it can modify bills proposed by the government formed from the elected commons. The UK system is only partly democratic too.

[@hexadecimal7300]

The house of lords can not stop a bill, they can suggest and make things a bit difficult thats it.

[@jwjgreenwood9806]

Great video!

[@PotatoBearRawr]

I vote LAN party!

[@lorenzosgarza]

I'm confused are you talking about LAN parties via connecting with people or a European party currently active in the EU? Or is this a joke I'm a bit retarted excuse me.

[@HistoryScope]

It's a joke.

[@lorenzosgarza]

@@HistoryScope thank you, also, this is a good series of yours so the best of luck to your channel.

[@martinprince7728]

i vote the WLAN party

[@brianbuckley1234]

this video is fantastic

[@henryrobinson2222]

please could you explain how dispensing with the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions, the two bodies comprising trade union and civil representatives, is in the interests of European workers? I understand how dispensing with these two bodies would lead to a reduction in costs but can't quite fathom why having trade union representatives who hopefully stand up for the rights of workers is somehow deemed academic

[@mariamekhova]

Thank you so much

[@lcw0303]

excellent. Thanks

[@anthonyfic]

at 3:41 you say the commission is not selected by voters, that's not exactly true. Each country CAN elect democratically its commissioner, as it's the case here in Belgium. I don't know much of US politics, but in the UK, if I remember it correctly, bills can be introduced by the House Of Lords. Which is so much more undemocratic than this!

[@peterwilkinson5113]

The UK needs reform but the HOL cannot block any decision made by the commons & any MP can introduce legislation. In the EU sole right of legislative initiative sits with the EU commission. The EU parliament only has real power (to amend) in the ordinary legislative process, there are around a dozen different legislative processes within the EU.

[@9syc0]

@@peterwilkinson5113 the EU sole right of legislative initiative sits with the EU council. 0:45

[@peterwilkinson5113]

@@9syc0 You are incorrect. This is a quote from the EU parliament's own fact sheet in relation to the commission "As a rule, the Commission has a monopoly on the initiative in EU law-making (Article 17(2) TEU).". There is no ambiguity. The impact of this is that no legislation passes through any of the EU legislative processes without the commission initiating it. The commission are the executive & they are not accountable to the electorate.

[@dirkdeschepper735]

@@peterwilkinson5113 Initiating legislation does not make it the executive. The Commission leads the EU civil service. It's comparable to the unelected Whitehall mandarins or the unelected political appointees that lead US governmental departments. By comparison the EU civil services is lead in a far more transparent way.

[@peterwilkinson5113]

Wrong. Even the EU have dropped any pretence & refer to the commission as the executive. The UK civil service only drafts legislation in response to requests from those accountable to the electorate.. Regarding the US, it is a presidential system with power sitting with the elected president. To ensure they do not overstep the mark all other areas of government in the US (senate, congress & supreme court) can override. Also the president needs the senate & congress to both originate & pass legislation. The EU system places executive power in the hands of someone appointed in a backroom deal who is not accountable to the electorate. MEPs cannot originate or repeal anything. Nor are they involved in all legislative processes, they are virtually powerless. The real power in brussels sits with 28 unelected & unaccountable individuals who are often failed politicians. To 'guide' them there are 33,000 lobbyists. For a normal EU citizen to be able to influence anything they need 1 million signatures on a petitions drawn from multiple countries.The EU is a sham democracy.

[@ozzo870]

At least you guys get to vote for your representatives and have a parliament of sorts for that matter. ASEAN is purely an organization of heads of states and appointed posts.

[@agronhajdari5462]

Good One!

[@mw123lover]

Here this is on the house👍👍👍

[@ferdousnijrabi8442]

Thank you so useful video

[@diabl2master]

2:16 you mean 2/508? 😂

[@steiraman1]

The comission and the parliament are not the problem. the comission is confirmed by the parliament. In other countries also the government makes proposals which canthen are passed by parliamnet. It is debated whater parliament gets iniciative rights, and there are already ways of law iniciatives outside the comission. Additionally, no comissionaire is only looking at his own countries intrest, they all see the EU as a whole. 28 are too much, but the idea was, that lawmakers not only comes from Western Europe or one singel party family but are reflecting the diversity. One problem is that people have their national intrests in mind when voting for EU-parliament. The secound problem is that the parliament has NOT the final say in lawmaking, but the council has. The council decides not by a 50% mayority rule, but in most cases by an unanimity rule. Imagine US law being made by the 50 governors of all US-states. That would work even less efficiantly i guess. That is the big problem So most often there is a weak poor compromise which comes too late. The advantage is that no country has to apply to anything it does not want, because it ahas a veto in the lawmaking process. BUT: Since it is the most powerfull entity and it always stays hte same (some conservatives, some social democrates, some liberals) it comes up always with the same compromises. There is no possibility of voting for change. The parliament is voted for by all EU-citizens through elections, but it is not that powerful. There has to be a reform to ensure member state influence but to give up some national power (unanimity) in order to make the EU more governable. I would suggest something similar to the US-Senate where all member states are equal. So a myority of hte population (parliament) and a myority of member states (council replacement) pass laws.

[@editsonimovie8681]

Wait, do the eu seats divider uses the same system as the electroral collage? Actually, Europe sees the inequality from these systems on a lower scale for it has more people divided among less countries

[@SurfTrekTonics]

In the US common conception is the EU is bad punishing the UK for leaving. I don't really think that is the case but can you explain the Brexit issue from the EU perspective as there is always two sides to a story..... Thanks and great video.

[@HistoryScope]

UK wants to leave. UK doesn't want to leave the common market. EU is ready to negotiate. UK wants things the EU doesn't want. EU therefore rejects any UK proposal. UK realises that without a deal their economy will suffer severely and that their peace agreement with Northern Ireland comes to an end. UK asks for more time to negotiate. EU agrees. UK purposes several deals. EU rejects them. UK asks for another extension. EU agrees. UK leaves the EU but without leaving the single market by agreeing to uphold the single market. EU agrees. UK makes more proposals. EU rejects them. So basically the UK wants to leave and the EU is okay with that. The UK wants a trade deal and the EU is willing to listen but is too busy to make their own proposals as the UK is too insignificant to the EU. And so the UK's proposals keep getting rejected and the EU is just wondering wtf the UK is doing.

[@nikanikuradze7437]

1:34 look at the middle of that,creepy....

[@kartikey92]

this one was difficult to understand, specially for me who doesn't have academic motivation, and here for casual knowledge

[@tugcealtintas1313]

finally it all makes sense!!

[@kurdishgeneral]

Great overview of the EU! Thank you! While EU indeed needs reforms, it is a great achievement for Europe and for humankind at large. I hope we can one day implement a similar union in the Middle East (after changing the current borders and establishing new states)!

[@cgt3704]

As an european, i support the idea of an Eu-style Middle east, where arabs, jews, turks, kurds, assyrians and others can freely trade and maintain some long-deserved peace and tolerance.

[@ICT-Armenia]

thank you

[@nakeasimone13]

In a way the E.U. kinda remind me of the Electoral College in the States. Each state receives so many electors depending on the size of the state plus one person from each the House of Representatives and plus two from local Senators. But the way the system is set up I feel that the individual votes of the people don’t count. For example the United States overwhelmingly voted for Hillary Clinton to be president but because of the electoral college we got Trump. 🙄 A key reason the founders wanted the electoral college: To keep out demagogues and bullies yet we still ended up with one in office how ironic

[@HistoryScope]

The two systems are very different, however. Parliament is designed to assure that no country is able to dominate the others while still being as representative as possible. It also doesn't vote for a president via a separate system (e.g. The electoral collage), as the leader of Parliament is voted in by a majority of MEPs. Because there are several parties out therefore requires compromises between the parties creating a far less hostile political system. Comparing the EP with HOR shows the two are wildly different.

[@cheydinal5401]

No, countries don't control the EU just because the EU capital is within their borders. I mean theoretically they could try a military coup, but that's really far-fetched. The reason for that is that each country wants all those powerful politicians, the construction of the EU buildings etc to be in their country, to spend a bit of money and also for prestige

[@hauskalainen]

Voter turnout tends to be low in elections for bodies where the general satisfaction is already high. Local government elections have very low turnouts but that does not mean there is anything to be concerned about. If on the other hand your services were lousy and your local taxes were high you would be down at that election booth next time to kick 'em out!!!

[@hexadecimal7300]

Not really the service from the eu are terrible . Taxation and other big government controls are terrible but the tiny bit of European governance you can effect with your vote wont make jack difference . So no one bothers . The UK actually thinks it can govern itself... How crazy is that.

[@bharathirajkumar]

Mind explosion

[@itsfine7578]

Thank you

[@florianpollard3460]

EU court of justice doesn't have the power to overrule national governments, so the highest authority is still the member states themselves. National governments can still vote against EU law, like Britain had done many times. EU can not force anyone to do anything so I guess calling it undemocratic is kinda unrelevant.

[@muhannad3177]

The narrator Speaks quickly.

[@vincentjacobsson3981]

Je pense que cela devrait faire l'objet d'une enquête si l'Union européenne est de temps en temps légiférée avec la Bible écrite comme une histoire. Le mot immunité (Latin Immunitas, liberté d'obligations envers l'État) provient d'une révélation religieuse du Moyen Âge, probablement d'un pape pour devenir sans loi et qui a depuis été réécrit en immunité complète, immunité personnelle et fonctionnelle (légalement, ne peut pas être poursuivi pour acte criminel) aux rois (chef de l'État), aux présidents et aux premiers ministres, pour les décisions et les actions en droit. L'exploitation politique de l'écosystème vital a maintenant entraîné la mort des forêts (force majeure) et comment cela affectera-t-il l'économie des gens, etc?

[@pinchermartyn3959]

Commissioners are appointed not voted in by the people.

[@dirkdeschepper735]

Which is the case with all civil servants.

[@peterfireflylund]

The European Parliament has to accept them. It is similar to the way governments (ministers) have to be accepted by national parliaments. The European Commissioners even have to accepted *individually*, which is quite unusual.

[@barry5111]

Listening to this we don't stand a chance of running our own country in this mess.

[@9syc0]

the laws pass by the EU parliament have to be then ratified by the respective member states parliament, and are only the bare minimum of what a European county is expected to do.

[@christopherwood9009]

Europe is not a country; it is a continent!

[@robertstephenson5897]

That system of governance is impractical, leaving the door open for lobbyists to take advantage.

[@josephzimmermann594]

Quite plausible, but nothing beats US if it comes to lobbying culture

[@HistoryScope]

Actually, there are about 30.000 lobbiests in Brussels vs only about 12.000 in the USA. The big difference is that in the USA the policymakers need money to get re-elected while in the EU no such bribes are needed. Meaning lobbyists in the USA can bribe their legislators while in the EU it's much more difficult

[@djokocarnaud2040]

On point. Not sure the brits know about this.

[@hexadecimal7300]

Yes we know or at least the Brexit voters know. Wonder why they never mentioned the European Council? Unaccountable men in black, driving the eu agenda and budgets from behind the scenes.

[@jasonkingshott2971]

You forget to mention how some countries can ignore EU rules, like France and Germany 'sold £230million of military hardware including bombs, missiles and guns to Moscow' - likely used in Russia's invasion of Ukraine - despite EU-wide arms embargo in wake of 2014 annexation of Crimea. The EU banned 'the direct or indirect sale, supply, transfer or export of arms' Countries used a technicality that permitted contracts signed before 2014, France was responsible for making €152 million as part of 76 export licences. Wonder why the organisation won't allow independent auditors to fully securitise it's accounts, the emphases on 'independent' and 'fully'.

[@challah4311]

A Eurosceptic EU Party?

[@MartinREC]

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. 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. 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. Perhaps 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?

[@arch3223]

About the population "crisis" Europe faces, if they were sincere, why bring in Africans and Muslims? Why not the millions of Europeans living in the Americans and elsewhere? Ireland is an extreme case, but there are a lot more Irish American, Canadian and Australians than there are Irish in Ireland. Invite them to come back home and population "problem" solved. I'd love to move to my ancestral land. Again Ireland is an extreme case also because there wouldn't be much of a language problem if those overseas Irish moved back to the motherland, but an Italian American would have an easier time moving to Italy even if they don't know the language, they know aspects of the culture. Would've been a lot better than bringing in people with no money or skills and no knowledge of the language or culture.

[@dirkdeschepper735]

@@arch3223 Pure racism.

[@insertname8451]

You could've just said you're a racist looney no need to write a novel.

[@thatonescrambler]

you sound like a whiterun guard :3

[@mathewszwedo9127]

Lol rave party or lan party

[@mothermovementa]

The answer: They don't

[@protyaychakraborty4108]

There are 27 members of EU right? So how come there are 28 heads of state?

[@HistoryScope]

Because at the time of writing the EU had 28 members

[@dirkdeschepper735]

There is no EU "president", i.e. a single head of state. Every council or commission is liable to someone who leads it, and they are often called president of that council or commission. Because they preside ... . People that complain about the many "presidents" of the EU are either ignorant or malicious. It's literally complaining that someone leads/heads all collaborative groups.

[@THEWILLY417]

Very informative, but don't you think that it is too bureaucratic and the number of people should be reduced? Over 700 seats seems too much, moving between Bruselles and Strasbourg is just a waste of resources, just spreading all the institutions would be enough.

[@ig72games__ita67]

We don't have 2 party systems so every party needs to be recognised with at least a seat in the EU parliament. Look we aren't 2k people, we're almost as big as US population after all

[@discopoe]

At 2:26 ... 508/2 = 0.4% :'''DDD

[@tonyisthinking7078]

Laughs in mathematics

[@TheInkblot101]

...EU Parliament doesn't set the budget, they can only negotiate it or pass it.

[@WillApplebee]

Nice video and more people would benefit from watching it and I hope you make more but please please stop deleting all the silences between your sentences/words. It makes it really hard to listen to. It feel like being attacked by a word salad. On steroids. Backwards Twice Just some constructive feedback ;)

[@paulus514]

to mutch corruption

[@mattyvonlong-schlong4433]

So the EU is pretty much the Holy Roman Empire 2.0

[@OneDaveAtaTime]

Average salary of the European Commission is €260,000. Money we’ll spent on unelected bureaucrats and self justifying administrative rule makers

[@nagyba]

American elector system ain't democratic either 💀

[@cdb5961]

Tldr it doesn't

[@philc4661]

A good representation of the EU institutions. Just one question... Where are the people in this? In the USA, the people get to vote for the president, the Senate and the house. In the UK, the people get to vote for the parliament but not the Lords or head of state... But parliament has full responsibility in reality so the people have control of the power. In the EU, the people get to vote for parliament but not the European Council (of Heads of Government), the Council of the European Union (national Ministers) or the European Commission. Furthermore, the EU Parliament has no power to raise legislation so they have no ability to set the agenda and therefore have limited power. So as a voter in the EU, how could I use my vote to directly elect a body which can implement a new law or repeal an existing law. The fact is, I can't! Until this is fixed, I will vote against membership of the EU.

[@HistoryScope]

The people vote on national leader and the EU Members of Parliament

[@philc4661]

@@HistoryScope that may be true for some European countries but not for most. Ireland, Germany, Britain, Italy, etc. all become head of government by being party leader and are not directly voted for by the public.

[@philc4661]

@@HistoryScope thanks for the videos and effort you put into this. I totally agree with most of your points and made many of those arguments before voting remain in the brexit election. But I didn't properly appreciate this accountability issue when I voted and for me, this is a deal breaker.

[@Kounomura]

The European Union is becoming more and more like the Soviet Union. But if it does happen, it will be even more disappointing. The goal is to colonize smaller countries. This is already looming large. If this were not the goal, then cooperative, free trade would be enough. On the other hand, even today, the powerful western member states dictate what the smaller eastern member states are allowed to think. With the European Union, the countries of the former Soviet sphere fell from bucket to bucket. You can't talk about freedom and equality at all. The union goes so far as to overthrow democratically elected parties and leaders in some member states. For example, in Hungary they have been trying to do this for 12 years. This country is mercilessly blackmailed, rightfully due money is refused to be paid out with all kinds of false reasons.

[@lthejustice4255]

My awnser is Germany!!!

[@zyanego3170]

Hat jemand Deutschland gesagt?

[@furkansahinkara730]

İf turkey joined would they have the second most seats

[@pontan8084]

Well they never will. They dont mean the regulations and will probs never do so

[@xxxxii24iixxxx]

Are you aware that you got the German flag wrong?

[@peterwilkinson5113]

Talks about Europe when it is the Eu . Europe is not the Eu.

[@dirkdeschepper735]

And the US is not America.

[@maxwest6595]

The auditors dont do anything.

[@alanstead7617]

The information was given so slowly I got bored and fell asleep. Only joking. The information was supplied at such a speed that it did not have time to register in my head before you went on to make the next point. Good info; terrible presentation.

[@JakeJustIs]

I disagree with most of what I know about the EU, and its reasons for continuing, but videos like this make a real, constructive debate possible. As it is, the EU can't last. But the ability to understand it, and discuss it means that it's possible to preserve the best parts and continue in the direction that it was created for: Peace and prosperity. Again, I'm not a supporter of the EU, but this kind of understanding might just lead it to a place where it becomes valuable to the world.

[@calinsa3880]

You used the Slovenian map but gave it the Romanian flag (3.39)

[@HistoryScope]

nope, the part on the bottom right would be smaller if it were slovenia :)

[@calinsa3880]

Bulgaria then ? still wring map :P

[@ahmedhazbar6880]

No wonder the UK left. The complexity is above and beyond. Can you please make a video about the US institutions and how they work?

[@HistoryScope]

This isn't any more complex than the UK itself which has a monarch, house of Lords, etc. :D And no. This is a history channel only now.

[@sandrodream5418]

why all european institutions are located between france-germany-luxemburg-belgium ? this is a very bad bad thing no good

[@usarkarzts4207]

Because they where the founders. So they built the institutions there.

[@sandrodream5418]

@@usarkarzts4207 and italy ?

[@sandrodream5418]

@@usarkarzts4207 luxemburg a founder ? a little criminal evasion taxes State with 8 european institutions is normal for you ?

[@usarkarzts4207]

@@sandrodream5418 im not saying its normal, but i understand the need of the time to have the institutions as close as possible.

[@sandrodream5418]

@@usarkarzts4207 as close as possible??? Ok so europe is located in just between france and germany? For me who have european institutions located in his nation must pay all the money to mantain employers and the buildings and plis a tax of many billions euros each year to ospitate an european institution(the cost must variate depending the importance of the single EU institution)

[@Dr_Callidus_Corvus]

You should talk about the lisbon treaty. It's one of the main reason Nationalists such as I oppose the EU.

[@DominoLarry]

How nice that Donald Trump explains us how the EU works.

[@oletoustrup8572]

The EU parliament does not pass laws. That is only on very special occations. They can agree to recommendations for the commission and counsil of relevant ministers from the member countries. EU is barely a democratic institution, but has the advantage that it has become a holy cow, that cannot be critisized. Over about 15 years the Danish left and center has changed from hard sceptical to unconditional support.

[@garyn.i1255]

Straight to the point.. How does the EU FUNCTION. With lot's of money from country's that join the EU........ THE EU leadership should hang there head's in shame 4 the way they treat members

[@kingofworld3228]

England not Europe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@greatgameplayswalkthroughs660]

Europe of the riches and Europe of the poors ? P.S. Do I vote for all the politics in the EU ? Is this a Democracy or a Kleptocracy?

[@tahziirakoze9437]

Now that I've thought about it, I realize, I completely, don't care about Europe.

[@Vinkie]

It doesn't. It doesn't function.

[@headcanon6408]

My favorite post-Brexit factoid is that now only 11 of the 12 stars on the EU flag represent actual EU countries

[@mrjohny193]

There are 27 member states in the EU, the stars never represented the number of member states.

[@headcanon6408]

@@mrjohny193 When the EU was created in the early 90s, there were 12 founding states, hence the 12 stars

[@nikanikuradze7437]

Merkel is head of government not state