Re:European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA
by ginko on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @09:07AM
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TTIP would still have to pass the directly elected EP. Juncker, the new head of the commission was also nominated due to his fraction winning the most seats in parliament.
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Re:European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA
by waps on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @10:25AM
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Some more discussion about this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_deficit_in_the_Europ...
And yes it passes the parliament, however
1) treaties can be adopted without a parliamentary "yes" (has happened many times in the past, because it didn't even used to be asked at all)
2) parliament can say yes or no, but cannot change anything.
3) looking at the contents of previous treaties, it is blatantly obvious that the rules introduced using this instrument would never have passed parliament using other means.
An example of this would be, well, and example of this would be TTIP itself, if the contents are what they're rumored to be, which seems like. Other examples include, for example, the copyright directive [1].