The EU needs to Change. Urgently. (ft. VOLT Europa)

The EU is FAR from perfect and this video we will look at the top 3 things that need to be changed. We are joined by Reinier van Lanschot, Co-President of Volt Europa, a Pan-European Political Party, where we discuss what will make Europe stronger, more democratic and more transparent.

🇪🇺 Volt EUROPA
Thank you, Reinier Van Lanschot

Video Clarifications:
1) The EU Made Simple does NOT have any party affiliation - this video is simply an exchange of ideas.
2) 0:57 & 1:35: Cyprus should also not be depicted as being an island with two separate entities/countries. All of the island is the Republic of Cyprus, and an EU member state.
3) 0:57 & 1:35: Please take this map with the parties with a grain of salt, it is an older depiction and it is only there to make a point of national parties.

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Source 1: The Council, Voting System
Source 2: Politico, EU Deal Hungary drops Veto

[EUMadeSimple]

Do you agree with these reform ideas? Let us know in the comments. Also - Video corrections and clarifications can be found in the description.

[martinjuan.p]

It's important for europe to strive for independence in high technology areas, especially considering that europe may not have achieved the same level of independence as china did in the 80's in areas such as military, space(their own international station), technology (internet), manufacturing, and economy. It would be great if europe can work towards reaching a level of competitiveness with both china and the usa in this domain.

[novvak]

Fanastic video. One of your best in my opinion. I don't know how you manage to explain 3 issues in 5:25. I agree with all 3. Let's hope it changes in the near future, it would make Europe a lot stronger, more efficient, unified and more democratic.
Also, it's great that your doing interviews with influencial people, it really show how much EU made simple has grown.

[gianlucapistoia]

I think the work you do is so incredibly important, that's the kind of transparency, which creates empathy, we (as European) need and you help with that <3

[flyalltimes]

As a romanian, it is really frustrating for a country to block Romania's accesion in Schengen for some interests. Hopefully this year my country will be able to join the area. Great video! Can't wait to see your videos on the Western Balkans' accesions!

[Molhedim]

Great video, would love to see more about Volt in the future. We desperately need new ideas in europe and new way of thinking.

[Stefan-wjmq]

It seems to me that Europe lost its vigor. One of the reasons is still a big economic disparity between Western and Eastern Europe. Other reasons are different national ambitions among the EU members. France, for example, still like the pretense of being a great power (even though it isn't) and sees the European frame as a staging area; Poland, on the other hand, not without the reasons, sees its relations in the security area with the US more important than adding to the vague French vision of "strategic autonomy". Ukraine is a good example of how European strategic policies are futile. France has had a perfect opportunity during this war to exercise its vision for "strategic autonomy", but its "diplomatic" approach toward Russia has only fed pure skepticism and futility. The next European elections will be interesting to watch. If the turnout is low, these reforms are the distant future for future generations.

[HessionDrasha]

Voting for pan european parties is the way forward. Regional constituencies need to be a thing. North italy, central italy, southern italy, as a more representative model. Maybe with city state representation. Like paris representing itself, seperate from northern france. Yes, removing the veto and going for a qmv vote is better. Lets give transnational regions the abillity to cooperate as much as they'd like, more so than with other parts of their own country, if the people living there want to.

[davidmende]

its incredible that - especially in these areas, that are arguably the most important - a single member can say "mmmh no, I don't like it" and making it impossible to move forward for everyone else, even if all other 99% want to proceed

[markaberer]

Yeah, we are all human! With the exclusion of Swiss, Norway and UK off course...

[NanoNami]

Thanks. I Need more please . I need longer channels version from u. Please make The EU Made Complicated 20+minute 😂.

[maxkick]

Why would I have the right to vote for a party from another country? That doesn’t make any sense. I’m not even affected by them, and thus it’s not democratic. It’s like all the Turkish people in Germany who vote for Erdogan… Forget this idea, it doesn’t make sense.

[foutes]

Both pro-EU and anti-EU people agree that it needs reforms like this. Just for different reasons.

[andrasadam]

It's really cool you got Reinier Van Lanschot to participate in this one! Pan-european parties are the only way forward, hopefully we can see more of them soon.

[kimlaursen]

Great video🙌🏼, 5:05 we would like videoes on all of them😉

1:30 I don’t agree with voting on other countries political parties, but maybe it should be a direct vote on the European Political Groups, when we got European parliamentary elections🇪🇺🗳️

[albevanhanoy]

Great video. This needs to be spread and shared everywhere.

[Nys]

Very interesting video, as always. I really like this channel.

[dawidekczerwinski]

This channel poses as an educational channel, so this video must be criticized as educational content.
This video is biased while trying to pose as objective. Most other videos on this channel are purely informative, but this one treats decentralisation as a problem within EU, which can't objectively be treated as a problem, and definitely cannot be named as problems with democratisation.

[Pyhantaakka]

Before any of this we need a constitution that clearly defines the limits of EU power. Lot's of time is now wasted on national issues on EU, for example micromanaging working times across EU states (just now trying to limit working time of Swedish firemen?!) and trying to legislate female quotas on company boards. These are clearly somethings states were able to handle in the past and are able to handle now. EU mingling on such matters just wastes their time from their own role.

[amos_melkersson]

Great video as always! Could you make a video where you explain the political groups of EU? And the european parties within these groups and how it all works.