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Climate change denialism and the crisis of the centre in Spain in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

The current system DOES allow it

Technically true, not in practice. On almost half of the provinces (those with less than 4 seats)* you risk your vote going to waste if you don't vote for one of the big two parties.

it’s not a system like the American one, what does not allow it’s the will of the voters

It's the same issue, but worse in their case. The American system also allows it if only the voters massively voted for some third party.

those on the right do not like a center party.

Do they?

* In fact, you could even include those with 5 seats, which would put it over the 50% of provinces and 30% of seats.

Climate change denialism and the crisis of the centre in Spain in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Unfortunately the current system doesn't allow a small center party to survive and add nuance to the political scene.

An overdose of Atlanticism has put Europeans at risk in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

There isn't a binary «veto»/«simple majority». Supermajorities exist, and the Council already has rules like double-majorities to preserver a smaller country's voice. Vetoes only work for small groups, and cause gridlock in all other cases.

Ireland, for instance is constitutionally neutral

That's why article 42 is worded that way. Ireland (and Austria) not being able to contribute directly doesn't mean that the 25 other countries can't act.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks, since the page didn't mention where they had gone to I assumed they were just gone.

Gotta say though, not a fan on using subdomains. It would have been better to have everything under social-network.europa.eu (which I just tried and doesn't have a web page). It's not like there's a limit on number of profiles per instance.

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EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story (www.edps.europa.eu)
 

Things must be hard if the EU can't keep a single Mastodon server up.

Pirate IPTV Services Blocked For Pirating The Olympics. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Aren't the Olympics free?

Starmer opens door to youth free movement deal with Spain in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think anybody in Spain cares about this.

[Meta] It seems that feddit.de communities are moving to feddit.org, is it going to be the plan for this one too? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (9 children)

In that case mods should do that ASAP, to give enough time to people to notice it before the server shuts down.

Also should probably create the new community, lemm.ee doesn't seem to have one already.

[Meta] It seems that feddit.de communities are moving to feddit.org, is it going to be the plan for this one too? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Is there a way to move it to another instance?

Hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.

[Meta] It seems that feddit.de communities are moving to feddit.org, is it going to be the plan for this one too? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What's the matter with this instance? I see that the main page doesn't load.

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Article 17 - five years later (copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com)
O voto exterior non afectará á maioría do PP, pero o PSdeG podería gañar un escano en Ourense in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Agora co CERA, a saber que participación haberá.

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A chegada a Galicia da penicilina, un medicamento “milagroso” (praza.gal)
Russia could disqualify candidate hoping to stand against Putin over 'errors' in his bid for presidential election in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I'm curious, what are the other electoral systems you're talking about?

Encuesta Galicia: Rueda conseguiría la absoluta in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aprecio o optimismo, pero as estatais son moito máis competitivas e este sistema electoral favorece moito ao PP.

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Future of the EU: Parliament’s proposals to amend the Treaties (www.europarl.europa.eu)
 

Full proposal

From that link:

  • a more bicameral system and fewer deadlocks in the Council, through more decisions by qualified majority voting and the ordinary legislative procedure;
  • a fully-fledged right of legislative initiative, and a co-legislator role for Parliament for the long-term budget;
  • an overhaul of the rules for the Commission’s composition (rebranded as the “European Executive”), including the election of its President (with the nomination to be done by Parliament and the approval by the European Council - a reversal of the current process), limiting the number of Commissioners to 15 (rotating between the member states), enabling the Commission President to choose their College based on political preferences with geographic and demographic balance in mind, and a mechanism to censure individual Commissioners;
  • significantly greater transparency in the Council by publishing EU member state positions on legislative issues;
  • more say for citizens through an obligation for the EU to create appropriate participatory mechanisms and by giving European political parties a stronger role.

Some changes missing from that link that I found interesting:

  • Switch from «High Representative» to «Union Secretary» and «President of the European Council» to «President of the European Union».

I very much prefer the old names, and I don't like the downgrade from High Representative to Secretary.

  • Parliament now chooses by itself how to divide its seats between member states.

Not really in favor of this, this should be the European Council's job.

  • More power to the CJEU for resolving inter-institutional disputes, and involving it in the process for suspension of EU membership.
  • Gives more agency to the European Defence Agency and gives the CSDP its own budget. It also copies NATO's article 5 wording for mutual defense.
  • Amending the treaties needs the approval of 4/5 of member states.

That would currently mean 22 out of 27, so no more French-Dutch veto.

  • Adding the risk to cross planetary boundaries when considering environmental policy (?)
  • Adds a more concrete language, from «may» and «suggest» to «shall» and «enforce».
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Voting age for European elections (foros.fediverso.gal)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2023)749767

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Boletín da IAU para Maio (agrupacionio.com)
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