@Frank because I don't have the skills nor time to make these videos. That doesn't mean I can't give (constructive) criticism to TLDR News. I think they make great content, but mistakes like this are just sloppy.
Take some responsibility, live up to your agreements with regards to refugees and migration, and we'll take you seriously. Until then, all you "Visegrads" (racist and yet with the highest amount of migrant workers abroad) are Austrian for all I care... Please do a Slovacuation, Hungone, Czhechout and Polayonara. Please do, and we'll see how how feel about migration then.
@@Emanon... So "take in these colonists or I don't care about your entire people" What a disgusting, racist, imperialist attitude. The Slovaks deserve a right to self determination.
Between the editing mistakes, information mistakes and continuity breaks i think you need to take a chill pill. Get your process sorted and get your headspace good. you are waaaaaaay better than this.
It's "En Marche", pronounced "ong marsh" meaning "on march". You said "en marché" meaning "on market". That might be closer to reality, nonetheless not the party's name.
The pronunciation of the speaker is sloppy due to the fast pace of talking. He needs to improve his language and his speaking both, plus grammar as well.
I love these video's guys. But you need to review the amount of time it takes you make them. You push them out so fast that, in my opinion, you keep making mistakes. This can be seen in the editing mistakes that everyone keeps pointing out; as well as the description. Lads, get some sleep and don'y push the videos! We can wait a little longer in the day so that your content is over that little bit more, yanno? Keep up the good work. Love you, Sam x
In first 30 sec he gets stuff wrong. It is the only DIRECTLY elected part of EU. Other bodies are also elected just not DIRECTLY by EU-citizens. Some bodies consist of NATIONALLY elected people.
Lack of sleep strikes again! Its a shit situation though, with the yt landscape as it is and how topical this show is by necessity, they pretty much HAVE to crank them out at breackneck speed, with not many people to share the workload
Seems very much like Wikipedia gets this one right ... they have Left as scarlet red, S&D as bright red, Greens & regionalists as dark green, Greens as lime green, Liberals as yellow, EPP as light blue, Conservatives as Dark Blue, Europskeptics as a light brown, and the non-aligned members as Grey. The video is like they caught the Great American Amnesia when the Republicans decided THEY wanted the color red and took it from the Democrats, who were switched to Blue.
@@brucemcfarling7810 Bruce McFarling Wanna hear my elaborate theory about the American color switch? 😁 So the US is famously modelled after the Roman Republic witch several dozen tweaks of course. But nevertheless there is a Senate. What are the two factions in the Roman senate? Populares🔴 and Optimates🔵. And by that color coding they are actually quite consistent.
@@Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer Except I think there is reporting ... the R's did focus group testing in the 80s and concluded that people responded more favorably to red, so Fox News flipped it in their election reporting, and eventually other reporters followed suit.
In practice, however, the absolute majority rule means that the EU Parliament is little better than a rubber stamp to the European Commission who holds the real power (i.e. the un-elected bureaucrats).
Those are the traditional colors, plus the US colors were thought of by US news media not the parties themselves with different colors being used at first until the News media just agreed on the colors in the 80s
@@nromk I hate to break it to you, but the traditional colours are red=left, blue=conservative. It's actually just the US that has the colours switched, and until the 2000 election, they didn't even have default colours. They used to differ by channel, but they all agreed to keep the colours consistent to not cause confusion during Bush vs. Gore.
Regarding the number of seats per country: Germany, France, UK, and Italy together have over half the population of the EU. (But only get 42% of the seats.) Add Spain and you get almost two thirds. (49% of seats) Add Poland and Romania and you get over three quarters. (60% of seats) To give the remaining 21 countries any say, they really need to get proportionally more seats. They have less than 25% of the total population but still get 40% of the seats.
True but the reference is that you as a person decide who you want within the parliament.Your goverments leader is not always chosen by the people themselves… This is the difference he wanted to bring forth. The council is 'chosen' but not in the way the parliament does of course.
@@Wichnam This is why the EU will fall. The British parliamentary system is superior in every way. It won't be long before the Napoleonic-fascists in Brussels will be capitulating to the Crown.
@A Id So a party or candidate is an idiot if you don't like their point-of-view, right? So if that person is then elected by the people, then that democratic institution is flawed by your logic, right? I take it you don't like popular sovereignty or democratic institutions.
How are MEPs selected to be in a particular committee that proposes legislation? We see that the second stage of every proposal is approval by the commission. If the commission don't like it then any legislation proposal will not see the light of day. Who elects the commission?
The video info is wrong "The 1922 committee is the formal grouping of Conservative backbenchers. They have the power to impact a number of different elements within the Conservative party, including the rules for a leadership election. This gives them the power to take away May's immunity from leadership challenges and could mean them getting rid of the Prime Minister. In this video, we discuss the history and purpose of the 1922 committee and how they could impact Brexit. "
It's not necessarily that they messed it up, since it's not an absolute fact. Though I agree, that would make more sense since it's what is used pretty much everywhere (including by the parties themselves).
@@devineyre5545 it always amasses me that the democrats in the US cover two political styles at once. in most places the Socialists and Liberals would both be there own party. I Wonder what would happen if the US would have something like that then you would have 3 mayor parties. I am a member of a Dutch Liberal party but I am not a Socialist at all.
@@sirBrouwer it's just because he US has a two party system really, and the socialists views align moreso with the liberals than conservatives so they have to join together. By splitting them up you wouldn't have 3 major parties but one major party (republicans) and two smaller parties (lib/socialists), this is why many Americans see voting 3rd party "throwing away your vote"
@@sirBrouwer trust me, as a socialist, the Democrats barely encompass socialists. They have a few up and coming SocDems within the party, but the old guard is almost entirely liberal or even straight up conservative. This of course means that our Republican Party encompasses anywhere from a few liberals here and there, to full on conservatives, to ethnic nationalists. Believe me, I wish the US had at least 3 major parties.
It is not the only elected body in the EU, the other bodies are also elected. The Council are politicians from the government in the member countries, and all those governments are elected. Even the commission is elected. Elected by the council and parliament, and both of those are also elected.
Team, I love the channel but I'd much rather get content that is correctly edited put out less frequently than a lot of poorly edited videos. The graphic for the commission was used most of the times you said council, and there were some buggy audio cuts at the start. The creepy breathing thing also made a return. I was surprised to see EPP in red and the Socialists in blue too? Maybe that's how it is for the EU though, I don't know...
8:14 So what i got from that , A parliamentary committee , the European council and the commission conjure up a final form of a law, proposed by the commission. The law can not implement without the opinion of the EU parliament. The council doesn't actually need to care what opinion of the EU parliament is , only that the opinion was given. So of the 3 bodies taking part of the formation of a law, the only body that is directly appointed by the "people" "has some minimum degree of accountability" , is the one whos' opinion does not officially matter, in order to pass a law ? Did i misunderstand that ?
The Degressive Proportionality system of allocating Members to the European Parliament is the reason I chose to vote leave. From the moment Angela Merkel (whom I adore) ruled out the chance of reopening the treaties to address this, my mind was made up. I believe we ought to be arguing for more of a direct input into politics both here in the UK and in the EU. This system of less representative government is utterly preposterous. You correctly identify the US House of Representatives as having this formula for its 435 districts but failed to mention that in the USA the people directly elect their upper house (the Senate) and their Head of State & Head of Government, the President. In the EU parliament we the people only have one vote to directly influence its entire structure which in effect is worth a huge amount less living in the UK than any 26 of the 27 other member states. ALSO, please note, that Germany, by far the most populous country, currently has better proportional representation than either France or the UK.
I love your videos, but when you say that EU parlament as about the same function of all other national parlament, I am sorry but that's simply not true. In all democracies parliament is the primary legislator and doesn't need approval of government. In EU commission and council has major role on legislation, parlament is a less influential actor with finally having the commission beying the biggest player. It is like to say in a national state that the parliament need government approval... And that's probably why EU is a lesser democratic institution from the point of view of EU citizen, since the only organ directly elected has not the biggest role to play.
America’s varying citizen per representative is merely a mathematical product of not producing a “half” representative and assuring even the smallest state receiving at least one representative but as you explained it the EU is purposely, by intent, creating huge ( like 10x) swing is ratios. That seems so undemocratic! In the US system Malta would receive 1 MEP... not .82 of one.
The US has both systems - a comparatively equal one for the House of Representatives, and a very unequal one for the Senate where every state gets two senators, be it California (~20 million per senator) or Wyoming (~300k per senator).
Actually, the US House of Representatives is a strait 1 Rep per X citizens body. The only variance is due to (A) minimum of 1 Rep per state, and (B) roundoff error (no fractional members). The uneven comes with the Senate (strict 2 per state no matter how many citizens), and the Electoral College (1 vote per senator/representative).
@@brucemcfarling7810 Correct, but that is true for any system that has an integer roundoff. But it is not the deliberately non-proportional of the EU Parliament (at least as I understood it being explained by the video)
@@dalepennington916 The US one was deliberately rigged in the late 1800s to have more sub-proportional At Large districts, in moves like adding North and South Dakota as two separate states.
I like these a lot, but as a Slovenian, I'm a bit annoyed. Happens a lot, happened at major sporting events, so you don't need to worry too much, just be careful.
Well, the EU has always been about empowering its smaller members. The larger countries still have sizable influence anyways, they're just not *quite* as dominating.
If you want your vote not count equally come to the U.S. where unless you live in the Midwest your vote for President doesn't matter. Representatives represent between 500,000 people and 1 million and a senator can represent between 300,000 and 20 million. Everything is messed up here.
I'd like to see a video for each of the other major bodies of the EU. What does the European Commission actually do? What does the European Council actually do? Thank you for your attention.
The US House of Representatives are as close as possible to directly proportional. You are thinking of our Senate, which is explicitly not proportional to population at all, I assume. Neither uses a system anything like the EU Parliament, though.
Carl Fink I can kindof understand what they’re going for, since we have a fixed number of representatives and each state has a minimum (1). There are definitely problems with the analogy though, as you say, because the House attempts to give each representative after the first one the same number of constituents regardless of their state. You certainly wouldn’t see the level of discrepancy in the US that you see in the EU.
I'd like to clarify the comment about the U.S. House of Representatives. [1:55] Degressive proportionality is not used to determine the number of reps per state. The total number of reps is fixed (as of 1911) at 435. The total population of the US (310 mil, approx) is divided by that number, yielding 700,000 (approx). Each state gets 1 rep per 700,000 population. Each state, of course, has an integer number of reps (and at least one), so the differences in how many people each rep represents is solely because of rounding, not degressive proportionality.
EU parl Logo = Roulette Wheel for a reason, The house has the 2 Insider presidents, a 0 and 00 if you will to vote in favour of the Commission so the House always wins
Interestingly enough, the colors in America used to be blue = Republican (conservative), red = Democrat (liberal) but the television networks couldn't agree on this totally and eventually settled with it reversed. This makes absolutely no sense other than in the minds of fake journalists not wanting to associate Democrats with Communists.
The issue is that people disagree on how much power should be with the EU and how much should be with the national governments. The way it is now gives a bit more power to the national governments. If indeed we want a superstate, then yes you are right (and personally I don't mind that, but a lot of people do).
It is one of the basic principles of a democracy that the executive, legislative and judicial powers are kept separated, so the three branches can keep each other in check if one should somehow become corrupted. The European council consists of the heads of states of all member countries. So they are also very much elected.
The people running this channel have a better grasp than most about the EU and Europe and even they can’t keep a track of flags and countries. The average Brit probably couldn’t tell Estonia from Croatia let alone Commissions from Parliaments. If this Brexit process does anything constructive - it might be a slight increase in political and geographic awareness amongst the electorate.
You should explain more clearly how the EU parliament is not actually a parliament in the sense of the word. Real parliaments can introduce and repeal legislation, the EU parliament cannot.
After we voted, we held a mini-wake/party to commemorate our (potentially) last vote in the EU. By the way. When we re-enter the EU in about ten years, will the seats be taken back and reallocated?
Probably an easy question for an EU resident. In the elections do you vote for members in the country you reside in or the country you are a citizen of?
Both! As long as you have lived in your country of residence since at least 3 months before the election. And of course you have to pick one, so either you register for voting in your country of residence, or you travel back to vote in the Member State you're a citizen of. Alternatively, you can also register for postal voting, like I did (-> German expat living in Ireland)
Here's point 2.13 of Agenda 21. I now consider Britain to be a developing country after Brexit: "For developing countries to benefit from the liberalization of trading systems, they should implement the following policies, as appropriate: a. Create a domestic environment supportive of an optimal balance between production for the domestic and export markets and remove biases against exports and discourage inefficient import-substitution; b.Promote the policy framework and the infrastructure required to improve the efficiency of export and import trade as well as the functioning of domestic markets"
It is very undemocratic, take the UK for example, we have 73 MEP's out of 751, that means there are 678 MEP's not voted for by the UK people and have the power to decide what happens to them, most legislation motions voted in the EU parliament are majority passed, this has led to 55 motions that our MEP's voting against passing into UK law. This is like going into someone else's house in another country, eating their food, charging them a members fee and turning the TV over to what you want to watch, all without permission from the home owners.
It is The People who have the power. By voting The People are giving their consent to be governed by the EU. If The People didn't vote the EU cannot function.
That's made up. Power is exerted by the most organised force. A power vacuum at one level is always filled at another. Govern or be governed. Nowhere has an option to abstain ever been realised, it's a complete fiction.
@@simonpark1797 lt is not their land. They know this that is why they create legal fictions. This is why the government is a legal fiction corporation so is our police, judical system, NHS etc. The united kingdom is also a legal fiction corporation. England, Scotland & Wales is not & nor is the flesh & blood me.
I think it's misleading to say that the EU Parliament is the only elected body within the EU. It's true that the only strictly EU elections that take place are for the Parliament. However, during national/general elections we choose our presidents/prime ministers, and whoever wins this election gets a seat on the European Council. National/general elections also determine who the ministers of the various national governments are going to be, and these ministers get to meet in the Council of the European Union (which is not the same as the aforementioned European Council). So, for the EU national elections are currently just as important as European elections are. It's only the members of the European Commission that aren't directly elected by the people.
Can you do a video on the different voting systems for all the countries in eu elections? I'm from Ireland and voting seems different to everywhere else
You said Slovakia with a Slovenia graphic and wrote Junker instead of Juncker. Please get more sleep.
JUNKer? Sounds about right...
@Frank because I don't have the skills nor time to make these videos. That doesn't mean I can't give (constructive) criticism to TLDR News. I think they make great content, but mistakes like this are just sloppy.
Frank What a fantastic argument. Just because I can’t make my own videos, I can’t point out any flaws in anything, ever...
What are you, twelve?
@@AngryBoozer and Synitar : don t insult twelve year old reasonable kids I know ! and don t answer this sort of people -- they don t deserve it !
@@pattyfairytale4024 feed back loop checky brecky
Comments are filled with corrections. You need to slow down TLDR, politics deserve more quality over quantity.
Pity some politicians don't follow your advice.
I'm from Slovakia and that was Slovenian flag and Slovenian shape. Slovakia and Slovenia are two different countries.
Take some responsibility, live up to your agreements with regards to refugees and migration, and we'll take you seriously. Until then, all you "Visegrads" (racist and yet with the highest amount of migrant workers abroad) are Austrian for all I care...
Please do a Slovacuation, Hungone, Czhechout and Polayonara.
Please do, and we'll see how how feel about migration then.
@@Emanon... So "take in these colonists or I don't care about your entire people"
What a disgusting, racist, imperialist attitude. The Slovaks deserve a right to self determination.
@@Emanon...,
“are Austrian for all I care...”
Interesting attempt at an insult. 🤔
Between the editing mistakes, information mistakes and continuity breaks i think you need to take a chill pill. Get your process sorted and get your headspace good. you are waaaaaaay better than this.
It's "En Marche", pronounced "ong marsh" meaning "on march". You said "en marché" meaning "on market". That might be closer to reality, nonetheless not the party's name.
That's pretty funny
Lmao, closer to reality indeed
Heh, got a chuckle out of me
Papier mache
The pronunciation of the speaker is sloppy due to the fast pace of talking. He needs to improve his language and his speaking both, plus grammar as well.
Error on the graphic with Poland having 51 instead of 21 EPS.
Artur B Oh was wondering how Poland had the same meps as czech republic 😂
I love these video's guys. But you need to review the amount of time it takes you make them. You push them out so fast that, in my opinion, you keep making mistakes. This can be seen in the editing mistakes that everyone keeps pointing out; as well as the description. Lads, get some sleep and don'y push the videos! We can wait a little longer in the day so that your content is over that little bit more, yanno?
Keep up the good work. Love you, Sam x
Well it's a trade off between that and TH-cam/Patreon money.
Then again, it is good to keep things topical and up-to-date
In first 30 sec he gets stuff wrong. It is the only DIRECTLY elected part of EU. Other bodies are also elected just not DIRECTLY by EU-citizens. Some bodies consist of NATIONALLY elected people.
That's what he said.
Lol
The German CDU MEP represented by a red figure is pretty much like making a Tory red, or a LibDem green....black would be the right color.
DRSNova CDU/CSU*
EPP being red and S&D blue was a bit triggering when it's the reverse.
You should re-upload this video with all the editing mistakes fixed
The description is about the 1922 Committee @TLDR News
Lack of sleep strikes again! Its a shit situation though, with the yt landscape as it is and how topical this show is by necessity, they pretty much HAVE to crank them out at breackneck speed, with not many people to share the workload
Why use blue for the socialist group and red for conservative group? This is not USA...
What they do is they completely lack anyone shouting "DIVISION!!!".
Unevolved...
Indeed. Brexit will prove British superiority. The mono-state will fall and the British Empire will dominate.
@@gentlemanvontweed7147 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 "E--ex-excuse me Sir, pl-please can I have m-m-my Empire back? P-pl-please? Ju-just Injar then ol' chap? P-please?"
EPP on a red circle and S&D on a blue circle just feels sooooo wrong.
Exactly!
Yeah, that hurt my brain
Seems very much like Wikipedia gets this one right ... they have Left as scarlet red, S&D as bright red, Greens & regionalists as dark green, Greens as lime green, Liberals as yellow, EPP as light blue, Conservatives as Dark Blue, Europskeptics as a light brown, and the non-aligned members as Grey. The video is like they caught the Great American Amnesia when the Republicans decided THEY wanted the color red and took it from the Democrats, who were switched to Blue.
@@brucemcfarling7810 Bruce McFarling Wanna hear my elaborate theory about the American color switch? 😁
So the US is famously modelled after the Roman Republic witch several dozen tweaks of course. But nevertheless there is a Senate. What are the two factions in the Roman senate? Populares🔴 and Optimates🔵. And by that color coding they are actually quite consistent.
@@Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer Except I think there is reporting ... the R's did focus group testing in the 80s and concluded that people responded more favorably to red, so Fox News flipped it in their election reporting, and eventually other reporters followed suit.
In practice, however, the absolute majority rule means that the EU Parliament is little better than a rubber stamp to the European Commission who holds the real power (i.e. the un-elected bureaucrats).
weird switchings of red and blue colours for conservatives and social democrats
Those are the traditional colors, plus the US colors were thought of by US news media not the parties themselves with different colors being used at first until the News media just agreed on the colors in the 80s
@@nromk I hate to break it to you, but the traditional colours are red=left, blue=conservative. It's actually just the US that has the colours switched, and until the 2000 election, they didn't even have default colours. They used to differ by channel, but they all agreed to keep the colours consistent to not cause confusion during Bush vs. Gore.
Not only that, but Liberalism is right-wing, laissez faire, minarchist, etc.
I laughed so hard when the German CDU example figure turned red 😂 it’s the color of our other major party (the SPD)
Yeah, and then CDU contaminated its EU grouping (EPP) with its redness instead of S&D, which is their usual color.
You mean the NAZIs, right? It's shocking that we still haven't de-NAZIfied Europe. To the gallows with the whole commission just to be sure.
Gentleman Von Tweed wtf are you talking about?!?
@@gentlemanvontweed7147 I can´t name a single party in germany that comes close to being Nazis. Not even our AfD party which is right to far-right.
@@lazyking8246 The NPD still exists
Regarding the number of seats per country:
Germany, France, UK, and Italy together have over half the population of the EU. (But only get 42% of the seats.)
Add Spain and you get almost two thirds. (49% of seats)
Add Poland and Romania and you get over three quarters. (60% of seats)
To give the remaining 21 countries any say, they really need to get proportionally more seats. They have less than 25% of the total population but still get 40% of the seats.
Well, European council is also elected, in national elections as its a council of national governments and head of states
True but the reference is that you as a person decide who you want within the parliament.Your goverments leader is not always chosen by the people themselves… This is the difference he wanted to bring forth. The council is 'chosen' but not in the way the parliament does of course.
@@Wichnam This is why the EU will fall. The British parliamentary system is superior in every way. It won't be long before the Napoleonic-fascists in Brussels will be capitulating to the Crown.
@@gentlemanvontweed7147
I quite like MMP electronics.
@A Id So a party or candidate is an idiot if you don't like their point-of-view, right? So if that person is then elected by the people, then that democratic institution is flawed by your logic, right? I take it you don't like popular sovereignty or democratic institutions.
@@Wichnam Which is how a lot of the European democracies work, even those that protest because of the lack of democracy of the EU.
you just triggered 6 mil people with that slovenia graphic
Make that 8 mil ... Hahaha
Your pronounciation of En Marche (which in fact sounds like "En Marchés" i.e. "Into Markets") is just perfect.
Bruno Dst hein?
How are MEPs selected to be in a particular committee that proposes legislation? We see that the second stage of every proposal is approval by the commission. If the commission don't like it then any legislation proposal will not see the light of day. Who elects the commission?
I could watch hours of TLDR just comparing and contrasting the US and the EU layers of government
The video info is wrong "The 1922 committee is the formal grouping of Conservative backbenchers. They have the power to impact a number of different elements within the Conservative party, including the rules for a leadership election. This gives them the power to take away May's immunity from leadership challenges and could mean them getting rid of the Prime Minister. In this video, we discuss the history and purpose of the 1922 committee and how they could impact Brexit.
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I think this is why UK is leaving, because they don't know anything about eu parliament.
There's a major democratic deficit here since the parliament CANNOT propose/initiate new laws. It is something that needs to be rectified right now.
"The Council is not legally obligated to take account of Parliament's opinion." Not going to mention the democratic deficit at all?
Poland has 51 MEPs, not 21, as on 0:46 map :)
No wonder the EU is failing, with so many plumbers in its ranks.
Video full of mistakes. Reported this video as misleading.
You got the PES and EPP colours wrong
I know right? Why pretend that they are not neo-NAZIs?
You messed up the colors. Conservatives are blue, socialists are red.
Perhaps he adopted the American colour scheme of democrats (liberals / socialists) being blue, and republicans being red.
It's not necessarily that they messed it up, since it's not an absolute fact. Though I agree, that would make more sense since it's what is used pretty much everywhere (including by the parties themselves).
@@devineyre5545 it always amasses me that the democrats in the US cover two political styles at once.
in most places the Socialists and Liberals would both be there own party.
I Wonder what would happen if the US would have something like that then you would have 3 mayor parties.
I am a member of a Dutch Liberal party but I am not a Socialist at all.
@@sirBrouwer it's just because he US has a two party system really, and the socialists views align moreso with the liberals than conservatives so they have to join together. By splitting them up you wouldn't have 3 major parties but one major party (republicans) and two smaller parties (lib/socialists), this is why many Americans see voting 3rd party "throwing away your vote"
@@sirBrouwer trust me, as a socialist, the Democrats barely encompass socialists. They have a few up and coming SocDems within the party, but the old guard is almost entirely liberal or even straight up conservative. This of course means that our Republican Party encompasses anywhere from a few liberals here and there, to full on conservatives, to ethnic nationalists. Believe me, I wish the US had at least 3 major parties.
4:30 That is the flag of Slovenia not Slovakia.
He try to act professional but his channel is very not correct often....
With the MEP elections and May really close to leaving, the Brexit drama explodes once again. All thanks to TLDR, my spectating is smooth.
It is not the only elected body in the EU, the other bodies are also elected. The Council are politicians from the government in the member countries, and all those governments are elected. Even the commission is elected. Elected by the council and parliament, and both of those are also elected.
Team, I love the channel but I'd much rather get content that is correctly edited put out less frequently than a lot of poorly edited videos. The graphic for the commission was used most of the times you said council, and there were some buggy audio cuts at the start. The creepy breathing thing also made a return. I was surprised to see EPP in red and the Socialists in blue too? Maybe that's how it is for the EU though, I don't know...
All said well. So how about the European Commission? How democratic is that institution..?!
8:14 So what i got from that ,
A parliamentary committee , the European council and the commission conjure up a final form of a law, proposed by the commission.
The law can not implement without the opinion of the EU parliament.
The council doesn't actually need to care what opinion of the EU parliament is , only that the opinion was given.
So of the 3 bodies taking part of the formation of a law, the only body that is directly appointed by the "people" "has some minimum degree of accountability" , is the one whos' opinion does not officially matter, in order to pass a law ?
Did i misunderstand that ?
Keep up the great content, love this channel
4:30 Slovakia????? Or you joking with the common misnomer? xd
He was being dead serious, I'd throw milkshake at him if I were you.
@@chairmanmeow8388 make it large XD
@@chairmanmeow8388 I DRANK YOUR MILKSHAKE
Doesn't the EU parliament have no power to propose or repeal laws though?
4:30 as a Slovenian I am absolutely appalled.
Tusk in Donald Tusk should actually be read Toosk as that is the proper Polish pronunciation.
Not to add to the complaints or anything, but you often say "Follow the link in the description" and then never put the link in the description :P
The Degressive Proportionality system of allocating Members to the European Parliament is the reason I chose to vote leave. From the moment Angela Merkel (whom I adore) ruled out the chance of reopening the treaties to address this, my mind was made up.
I believe we ought to be arguing for more of a direct input into politics both here in the UK and in the EU. This system of less representative government is utterly preposterous.
You correctly identify the US House of Representatives as having this formula for its 435 districts but failed to mention that in the USA the people directly elect their upper house (the Senate) and their Head of State & Head of Government, the President. In the EU parliament we the people only have one vote to directly influence its entire structure which in effect is worth a huge amount less living in the UK than any 26 of the 27 other member states.
ALSO, please note, that Germany, by far the most populous country, currently has better proportional representation than either France or the UK.
*As an American, receiving a new upload notification*
"Oh boy, 3 A.M.!"
We Europeans have that issue as often with international content, especially as English speaking content is optimised for the USA.
I love your videos, but when you say that EU parlament as about the same function of all other national parlament, I am sorry but that's simply not true. In all democracies parliament is the primary legislator and doesn't need approval of government. In EU commission and council has major role on legislation, parlament is a less influential actor with finally having the commission beying the biggest player. It is like to say in a national state that the parliament need government approval... And that's probably why EU is a lesser democratic institution from the point of view of EU citizen, since the only organ directly elected has not the biggest role to play.
Could videos like this be EU explained rather than Brexit explained
The election of the EU president is done by the council (theoretically based on the number of MEPs from each party). Then approved by the parliment.
America’s varying citizen per representative is merely a mathematical product of not producing a “half” representative and assuring even the smallest state receiving at least one representative but as you explained it the EU is purposely, by intent, creating huge ( like 10x) swing is ratios. That seems so undemocratic! In the US system Malta would receive 1 MEP... not .82 of one.
The US has both systems - a comparatively equal one for the House of Representatives, and a very unequal one for the Senate where every state gets two senators, be it California (~20 million per senator) or Wyoming (~300k per senator).
Actually, the US House of Representatives is a strait 1 Rep per X citizens body. The only variance is due to (A) minimum of 1 Rep per state, and (B) roundoff error (no fractional members). The uneven comes with the Senate (strict 2 per state no matter how many citizens), and the Electoral College (1 vote per senator/representative).
So in other words ... it's NOT strictly proportional, due to the requirement that each state have a representative.
@@brucemcfarling7810 Correct, but that is true for any system that has an integer roundoff. But it is not the deliberately non-proportional of the EU Parliament (at least as I understood it being explained by the video)
@@dalepennington916 The US one was deliberately rigged in the late 1800s to have more sub-proportional At Large districts, in moves like adding North and South Dakota as two separate states.
@@brucemcfarling7810 I would need a citation on that one, as that does not fit my memory of the situation.
Theresa May just stepped down. Make a video about that if you can.
Just read that too
3:57-4:00 :D
4:30 that's Slovenia
I'd like to point out that you showed Slovenian flag and said Slovakia.
I like these a lot, but as a Slovenian, I'm a bit annoyed.
Happens a lot, happened at major sporting events, so you don't need to worry too much, just be careful.
It seems to happen a lot, it must be annoying for you Slovakians when people get your country mixed up!
I totally agree Second, it's not really a huge problem.
+ We're basically trying to be mixed up with everything being so similar.
@@DomenBremecXCVI Slovekian?
Pisses me off that the votes do not count equally. Also, bold move painting the CDU red..
Well, the EU has always been about empowering its smaller members. The larger countries still have sizable influence anyways, they're just not *quite* as dominating.
If you want your vote not count equally come to the U.S. where unless you live in the Midwest your vote for President doesn't matter. Representatives represent between 500,000 people and 1 million and a senator can represent between 300,000 and 20 million. Everything is messed up here.
I'd like to see a video for each of the other major bodies of the EU. What does the European Commission actually do? What does the European Council actually do? Thank you for your attention.
The US House of Representatives are as close as possible to directly proportional. You are thinking of our Senate, which is explicitly not proportional to population at all, I assume. Neither uses a system anything like the EU Parliament, though.
Carl Fink I can kindof understand what they’re going for, since we have a fixed number of representatives and each state has a minimum (1). There are definitely problems with the analogy though, as you say, because the House attempts to give each representative after the first one the same number of constituents regardless of their state. You certainly wouldn’t see the level of discrepancy in the US that you see in the EU.
I assume you got the wrong numbers for Poland at 0:47?
Romania has a smaller population and has more MEPs?
3:33 You misspelled "Jean-Claude Juncker".
I'd like to clarify the comment about the U.S. House of Representatives. [1:55] Degressive proportionality is not used to determine the number of reps per state. The total number of reps is fixed (as of 1911) at 435. The total population of the US (310 mil, approx) is divided by that number, yielding 700,000 (approx). Each state gets 1 rep per 700,000 population. Each state, of course, has an integer number of reps (and at least one), so the differences in how many people each rep represents is solely because of rounding, not degressive proportionality.
EU parl Logo = Roulette Wheel for a reason, The house has the 2 Insider presidents, a 0 and 00 if you will to vote in favour of the Commission so the House always wins
The European Council seems to have way more power than the European Parliament
Downvoted for using red for EPP and blue for S&D. This is not america FFS.
Interestingly enough, the colors in America used to be blue = Republican (conservative), red = Democrat (liberal) but the television networks couldn't agree on this totally and eventually settled with it reversed. This makes absolutely no sense other than in the minds of fake journalists not wanting to associate Democrats with Communists.
Poland elects 52 meps not 21
Currently there are 51 MEPs from Poland, after Brexit we will be given an extra MEP, and we will have 52, as you wrote.
Students of history have to laugh at Spain and France benefiting from the UK leaving the EU.
So the reallocation of the UK's MP spots to other EU countries in the event of Brexit is in-part why they want a swift end to Brexit?
Of you ever do a video on the CDU again use the colour black ;) red stands for its main competitor SPD. Have a good day and lots of love from Germany
Jesus, you guys need to proof read and watch your videos. Do you edit then literally just straight upload? Don’t check for mistakes or anything?
Sounds really undemocratic that they cant propose . we need more referendums and get rid of the council for this superstate to work better.
The issue is that people disagree on how much power should be with the EU and how much should be with the national governments. The way it is now gives a bit more power to the national governments. If indeed we want a superstate, then yes you are right (and personally I don't mind that, but a lot of people do).
It is one of the basic principles of a democracy that the executive, legislative and judicial powers are kept separated, so the three branches can keep each other in check if one should somehow become corrupted.
The European council consists of the heads of states of all member countries. So they are also very much elected.
Why is the CDU red here?
Because he's British and doesn't care about other countries' political traditions. ;)
Slovakia or Slovenia?
The numbers of MEPs per country at 0:45 are incorrect, UK has 73 MEPs, not 72, Poland 51, not 21, I haven't checked all countries.
Out of all places, I did not think I will see my country named Slovakia. The country in the picture and the flag are Slovenian.
The people running this channel have a better grasp than most about the EU and Europe and even they can’t keep a track of flags and countries. The average Brit probably couldn’t tell Estonia from Croatia let alone Commissions from Parliaments. If this Brexit process does anything constructive - it might be a slight increase in political and geographic awareness amongst the electorate.
What i want to know is, if the UK is going to leave, when would they be brought back in?
You should explain more clearly how the EU parliament is not actually a parliament in the sense of the word. Real parliaments can introduce and repeal legislation, the EU parliament cannot.
Wait... I thought the EU was undemocratic?
Dictatorship explained!
The little country is Slovenia whilst you mention Slovakia
After we voted, we held a mini-wake/party to commemorate our (potentially) last vote in the EU.
By the way. When we re-enter the EU in about ten years, will the seats be taken back and reallocated?
well.. 46 seats will be withheld reallocation for future expansions... :)
Probably an easy question for an EU resident. In the elections do you vote for members in the country you reside in or the country you are a citizen of?
Both! As long as you have lived in your country of residence since at least 3 months before the election. And of course you have to pick one, so either you register for voting in your country of residence, or you travel back to vote in the Member State you're a citizen of. Alternatively, you can also register for postal voting, like I did (-> German expat living in Ireland)
Here's point 2.13 of Agenda 21. I now consider Britain to be a developing country after Brexit:
"For developing countries to benefit from the liberalization of trading systems, they should implement the following policies, as appropriate:
a. Create a domestic environment supportive of an optimal balance between production for the domestic and export markets and remove biases against exports and discourage inefficient import-substitution;
b.Promote the policy framework and the infrastructure required to improve the efficiency of export and import trade as well as the functioning of domestic markets"
En Marche* you don't say the E like an é, it's a lot closer to the english word 'march'
André lorenceau of all the errors in this video, handling France’s ridiculous pronunciation is the least of the issues worth raising.
Why are the EPP red and the s&p blue?
There will be 51 MEPs from Poland, no just 21.. Correct this map
It is very undemocratic, take the UK for example, we have 73 MEP's out of 751, that means there are 678 MEP's not voted for by the UK people and have the power to decide what happens to them, most legislation motions voted in the EU parliament are majority passed, this has led to 55 motions that our MEP's voting against passing into UK law.
This is like going into someone else's house in another country, eating their food, charging them a members fee and turning the TV over to what you want to watch, all without permission from the home owners.
Many thanks for this preview and for your constant efforts!
More CONSTANT ERRORS!!!
HIS VIDEOS IS LATELY FULL OF MISSLEADING AND NOT CORRECT INFOS!!! LIKE FAKE ONES!!
jozef taliga Easy on the capslock there. But yeah, quality check has been dropping in these videos lately.
@@AngryBoozer I LOVE IT as so many people are furious when they see capslock!!!
LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!! 😂😂😂
There are so many corrections in this video. Maybe, this is why UK is leaving because they don't understand EU.
That pronunciation of 'en marche' makes it sound like you think 'marche' is the same word as in 'papier mâché'. Which I am totally here for.
Only traitors to the Crown speak anything else, but English.
I think you'll find that En Marche! is actually pronounced more like "On marsh" than "On marshé"/"On marshay".
Hope saying Slovakia instead of Slovenia was a joke :P
why does it go black at 1:08
The video you mentioned isn't linked in the description
It is The People who have the power. By voting The People are giving their consent to be governed by the EU. If The People didn't vote the EU cannot function.
That's made up. Power is exerted by the most organised force. A power vacuum at one level is always filled at another. Govern or be governed. Nowhere has an option to abstain ever been realised, it's a complete fiction.
@@annoloki What is made up?
Umm almost. You don’t vote then you don’t have the right to moan other than that if your on their land you pay for there version of democracy
Kat cankan if you don’t vote then your not a citizen implied by your words. Vote don’t vote you still pay tax and use govt services
@@simonpark1797 lt is not their land. They know this that is why they create legal fictions. This is why the government is a legal fiction corporation so is our police, judical system, NHS etc. The united kingdom is also a legal fiction corporation. England, Scotland & Wales is not & nor is the flesh & blood me.
I think it's misleading to say that the EU Parliament is the only elected body within the EU. It's true that the only strictly EU elections that take place are for the Parliament. However, during national/general elections we choose our presidents/prime ministers, and whoever wins this election gets a seat on the European Council. National/general elections also determine who the ministers of the various national governments are going to be, and these ministers get to meet in the Council of the European Union (which is not the same as the aforementioned European Council).
So, for the EU national elections are currently just as important as European elections are. It's only the members of the European Commission that aren't directly elected by the people.
Your first ad is long, then 2 minutes in you plug a different video. Please stop.
As a portuguse i wonder, why did you pick up Portugal as an exemple for the S&D
Black screen at 1:08, and your breathing at 3:57 repeats thrice.
Can you do a video on the different voting systems for all the countries in eu elections? I'm from Ireland and voting seems different to everywhere else
What's the hardest country to put shoes on? I'd imagine tall & skinnies like Chile are hard to scale.
US Representatives are strictly proportional. Senators represent different numbers of constituents.