UK votes to leave EU

Re:UK votes to leave EU by BlackFly on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:33AM (#11967517)

You may be interested to know that it is in fact a democratic union. The treaty of Maastricht outlines this in detail.

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Re:UK votes to leave EU by ptaipale on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:15AM (#11967774)

And still it's unable to e.g. abolish the travesty of European Parliament's monthly travel to Strasbourg. Is that according to democratic will of European people? Hardly not.

It's not a hugely significant thing - maybe costs just a hundred million € per year, or a bit more, not a lot in EU context - but its symbolic nature about the essence of European Union is telling.

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Re:UK votes to leave EU by notahacker on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:22AM (#11967806)

All democratic polities have weird little quirks which are unpopular but never remotely likely to become an election defining issue I mean, the UK has a House of Lords...

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Re:UK votes to leave EU by ptaipale on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:47AM (#11967940)

True, though to me it seems the House of Lords actually serves a useful purpose.

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Re:UK votes to leave EU by ZenoArrow on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:50AM (#11967622)

See my reply to AstralStorm.

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