Yeah its really cool to have them as a sponsor for this :)

@@IntoEuropethat means that I payed you, arte is payed by German and French tv, which is payed by taxpayer money. As a German I say my tax is invest good here

@@Flattithefish pay GEZ or you get imprisoned

@@CyberKomita GEZ ist voll Chill 😎. Ohne GEZ hätten wir so ne scheiß wie die Amis mit ihren CNN und Fox News Die sind doch VIEL mehr von irgendwelchen dummen Ideologien geleitet. Außerdem hab ich kein Bock auf Werbung.

Corruptly. Saved him some time.

Haven't heard that one before

We need the "right" direction (if you know what I mean). 😉

​@oceanwave4502 I sadly think I understand what you mean. You are one of the anti immigrant idiots are you not?

​@@oceanwave4502 shit joke lmao

​@@kos-mos98 Cry about it blud.

Sameeee! That step of individual countries selecting their commissioners was not clear. I understood the parliament elections, their groupings, and the election of the commission president, but not the rest of the individual commissioners, or how people are chosen for the council of the European Union.

The European council are the head of member states governments. When a new Prime Minister or President is elected in a national election, he automatically become an European Councilor. The European council then nominate the European Commissionioners. It usually done as a careful negotiation betwen Councillors, so every countries are represented in the Commissionion.

It’s all a hot mess to take power away from ppl and focus it on non elected few.

The national vote just refers to your national elections which occur on different years depending on the country. These elections vary by country but generally it is the election in which a new national goverment is formed (e.g. parliamentary elections in spain, presidential elections in France). The things is that the European Comission which is kind of like the EU goverment, has one member from each country of the EU. So each country's government proposes a name to be part of the comission, which will generally be from the same political party as the party in government in that country. This is a complicated negotiation because the President of the European Comission has to agree to these people because they will form his "team", then the European Council (the coutries' presidents or prime ministers) have to agree, and lastly it is all approved by the parliament which normally makes all the commissioners explain in parliament why they are the right person for the job. Note that the country of the president of the comission doesn't get to nominate someone else, nor does the country of the high representative (akin to a foreign affairs minister for the EU). These posts are negotiated with both countries and political parties in mind.

Me too...I started understanding then I got lost when he reached EU commission and parliament,

if you vote a political party that is a part of either S&D political group or Renew Europe political group - you support future DIRECT VOTE of EU Commission President.

no

No, since European politics depends on coalition buildings.

The issue with that, is that will totally destroy member states sovereignty. Today, EU commission is responsible toward member states governments. If EU commission become responsible toward EU citizen instead, then EU governments basically lost their executive power and EU would officially be a federal state. I am not necessarily against it, but people need to understand that giving a more direct democracy to EU means giving away their country sovereignty.

This would make the EU more democratic, but it would reduce sovereignty of countries. Both bigs criticisms of the EU. Its either one or the other

The European Council nominated her, and the the Parliament confirmed her. So she was elected indirectly. Cheers, Hugo

Pardon any misunderstandings here from a confused American: isn't that how it usually works in parliamentary democracies? No one votes directly for the Chancellor/Prime Minister (except in their own constituency). (Of course, that's how it *technicallY* works here in the Electoral College, but that is definitely not what you see on the ballot. I'm not saying our system is any better, but this doesn't seem *that* different from how indirect elections typically work, at least to me).

​@jeffbenton6183 Lol exactly, people complaining that the commission isn't elected by them while their government wasn't either.

​@@IntoEurope It went against the Spitzenkandidat-system which all the parties didn't even follow up on. Who knows who we are getting next time? The EU system is very unlikeable

@@jeffbenton6183 The thing is that Ursula von der Leyen wasn't even on the ballot. Normally in parliamentary democracies even though you don't vote for your prime minister directly, parties campaing beforehand with a candidate who will be elected prime minister if they win a majority and who also runs as the lead candidate for one of main consituencies (in Spain it is traditionally for the capital of Madrid). This was not the case for von der Leyen. She was one of the ministers of the german goverment but got nominated by European Council (countries' presidents and prime miniesters) because the candidate that was on the ballot (Manfred Weber) lacked government experience.

Google it

wikiopedia is the easiest site

It’s between the 6-9 of June in different countries across the EU. Yours must be on the 6th then. Consider some countries may also have early voting

No? Parliament is equal to the house of the commons in the UK. The council is then similar to the senate in the US.

nope, it actually has powers and responsibilities over a massive budget

agreed

We are not FAR RIGHT EXTREMISTS we are normal everyday citizens WHO ARE SICK TO THE BACK TEETH OF OUR COUNTRY BEING TAKEN OVER BY FOREIGNERS.

@@Phil-bc2sdI understand that many people fear to lose their wealth in these troubled times and are angry. However, while immigration is a challenging topic that Europe has to face it is certainly not the root of all the complex problems we face. The far-right parties use it as an easy scapegoat. Blaming everything on immigration is an easy message to spread with which they are pretty successful. However, their political programs lack true solutions to better the peoples lifes. On the contrary: By promoting tax plans that favor the rich over the poor and the middle class and by cutting social spending they weaken the economical and social status of the very people that vote for them, the workers. Additionally, they spread misinformation and division for a simple reason: When people feel unsafe and/or are enraged, they tend to vote for extremist parties. With this being said, I'd like to ask you kindly to reconsider your position.

Nah, I voted for BSW… She’s the German equivalent to Mette Fredriksen.

Did you watched the video ?

@@mrsupremegascon *did you watch. First learn proper English, then come to comment towards me.

@@MMerlyn91 lol, that's what I thought

I love how you confirm that anti-European are pricks, and then cry about nobody not voting for your parties.

man, at least watch the video first.