Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from...
by lowdose on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:42PM
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The US and the UK are both polarized because of the two party system. In Europe even opinion from the outer fringe are heard and compromises have to be made to govern. People need to be heard. I sometimes also think that the European model of government offering a lot more local influence is a stabilizing factor. Yes it is not that efficient but all people are able to participate in the democracy and this prevents the need to take over control.
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Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from...
by petre on Saturday February 22, 2020 @12:40AM
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I think the Dutch Parliament election process is a step in a right direction. Anyone capable in securing 1/seats percentage of votes gets at least a seat.
The trouble with the EU model of governance is that it's quite a bit too overreaching. Germany has 80M citizens and Greece has 11M. The ods against Greece are 8 to 1. If N. Macedonia would join the EU those ods would be more like 40 to 1. Greece along with Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria should at least make a group like the Visegrad V4 and stick tougether, but sadly it's hard to imagine Greece and N. Macedonia in the same group.