There is undoubtedly 1 good news about the fresh Euro-election: the EU anti-EU groups have had a mediocre result. They didn't cross the threshold, they did better in France or Italy, but there's no madness there either.
Although nationalists have won in France, respective more of these successes will be a full disaster. They took 23 tickets out of 79 seats, losing 1. That's the kind of success we'll agree on, the hips don't seem to be breaking.
Although the 2 strongest pro-EU groups, the centre-right (EPP) and the centre-left (PASD) no longer have a majority together, their agreement is not adequate to push the bill.
But it only means a bigger function (ALDE) and green. As far as I'm concerned, we're good.
With all the despair that the state of the Polish political scene is causing, let us note that nevertheless it is better to do so than vice versa. We would not like the elections to win the opposition in Poland, together it crossed the threshold... but the Union stood on the brink of decay.
And there was specified a threat. In Poland we did not follow this very closely – at least my bubble was not curious – but Steve Bannon went around Europe with his mission to repeat the success of Trump and Brexit.
His plans looked dangerous on paper: in almost all EU country we had a strong right-wing anti-EU party. If they created a pan-European international, they could, for example, become the strongest group in the European Parliament – and that would be the end of the Union.
It didn't happen. The PiS rejected the offer of cooperation (but let's note this as a plus). It was not an easy decision for the PiS, due to the fact that their situation in the Europarliament now looks weak. In the erstwhile word they formed a group with tories. There's no telling what's next.
Paradoxically, the Euro MPs of the SLD now have a better chance of getting into any influential position, due to the fact that behind them is the power of the PASD.
The fact that the leaders of the largest groups decide everything in the Euro-Parliament is sometimes cited as an argument that there is no democracy in the Union. That's not true.
The democratic deficit in the Union is indeed a problem, but it comes from something else. The Union inactive cannot become a federation, it cannot have its own constitution - so technically it inactive operates on the basis of agreements between sovereign states.
There is inactive no European sovereign due to the fact that Eurosceptics block specified initiatives. The resulting deficit turns the argument against the Union.
I hope to live to see the United States of Europe. However, this federation will most likely proceed to regulation the consensus of large blocks.
Such a strategy in which all election – a fresh government – was erstwhile called the Westminster system, due to the fact that 200 years ago it was only in 1 country. present we call it a parliamentary office (in Poland we have its hybrid variant – due to the fact that elements of the presidential strategy come to pass).
However, there are also options for democracy. In Switzerland, they have a conventional system, besides called directorate or committee. These names came from the large French Revolution erstwhile it was first used.
In this system, the government acts on a rule resembling a seismic commission. It represents all large parties – and if we always see a federation, it will most likely be the way its government will be formed (a small bit already, but the European Commission is not the government of a sovereign state).
The convention strategy may irritate citizens due to the fact that fresh elections do not mean a fundamental return. Switzerland has been ruled by the same parties since always, and it is not known why to vote at all.
Westminster and the president with the wheel make artificial breakthroughs – the votes break up 51:49, and abruptly we wake up in another country. This increases the roles of utmost groups that effort to attract the center to their positions.
From a political point of view, that is what we are, dear bloggers. We game to make the Antiscript camp more left-wing than it truly is. On the another side of the spectrum, the same Pis are trying to do the nationalists.
In the convention system, we would sit on our margins, nationalists on our own, and he would regulation the PO-PiS. It would be frustrating, but sometimes it's better to be frustrated like Swiss than cheerful like Poles.
In fact, the elections were won by Juncker, Verhofstadt and Timmermans. Don't tell me you don't have a small bit of fun about this.
