European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries

Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by Keirmot on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:21AM (#36367803)

The EU is not one guy sitting in the office trying to find time to deal with one issue at a time.

It’s an intercontinental organisation with 30.000 workers, 705 elected seats in the EU Parliament, and the European Council that sits the heads of state of every EU member state.

It better be able to deal with more than one subject at a time.

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Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by Nemo_bis on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:56AM (#36367964)

Indeed. After the vote of the Parliament, the Council needs to also approve the final text. But in practice the ministers only rubberstamp whatever Coreper (the ambassadors) have approved, and Coreper deals with dozens of matters in any one meeting:

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/mpo/2023/6/corep...

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