The Council of Europe (Not the EU): Europe's Most Confusing Grouping - TLDR News

The Council of Europe (NOT THE EU) is a rather confusing body, made up of 47 member states is kinda complicated. In this video we explain who's in the council, what its role is and why it's not actually the European Union.

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[tentenias]

Ever been in a situation like "there are some people we don't want in that group chat but it's awkward to kick them out, so let's make another group chat without them and talk there instead"?

[melonlord]

That kinda reminds me of Monty Pythons Life of Brian.
"People's Front of Judea" or "Judean People's Front"

[googlewouldntletmeaccessmy]

Given the fact that until recently EU law concerned almost entirely economic issues (single market etc.) and not many "political" issues for everyday Europeans, the ECHR was, and in many ways still is, the only supranational European institution that makes changes to more tense and political issues. For example, my country, Greece, made a civil union possible for same-sex couples only after an ECHR decision. Also, Greece has tried to significantly hasten its domestic court procedures, which used, and in many cases still do, take years and years, exactly because the ECHR fined Greece on grounds of violating the right to a fair trial

[GerConGdeGato]

Europe's most confusing grouping? Are you forgetting Eurovision?

[mittfh]

IIRC, the 47 Member States are basically every country that's at least partially geographically in Europe (including Russia and Turkey), excluding only Belarus (human rights concerns), Kosovo (partial recognition) and Vatican City (absolute monarchy).

Vatican City may take some explaining - the de facto King of Vatican City is a perk that comes with the job of being Bishop of Rome and CEO of Catholicism, Inc. - all three roles, combined, together with the administration thereof, are referred to as the Holy See. It is the Holy See (rather than Vatican City State) that is a member of various international organisations whose membership is usually reserved for States.

[TheTrojanhorse]

For a long time I was confused between the council of europe and the european council. This video helped me to reduce this confusion. Thanks!

[Adrianuk]

I’m not going to lie prior to this video I thought the ECHR was the work of the EU. Good job on raising the profile of something no doubt many people, myself included, were ignorant of!

[nickvliet]

The EU: Hey can I copy your homework?

The Council of Europe: Sure, but chan-

The EU: Done! Thanks man!

The Council of Europe: 🤦‍♂️

[streaky]

"confusing names" - it's a council of European countries.
"controversial" - does all the hard work that people credit the EU with.

[No-pmss]

TLDR News US only won the race to 100k subs because the circus over there is more entertaining rather than interesting like this content ;)

[suntanironman]

6:56 Did you mean “Back to the Council of Europe itself”? You said “European Council”, but then immediately showed the Council of Europe logo and started talking about the key groups of that Council of Europe.

[chardonnay]

These existence of these sorts of political structures are an important and ongoing litmus test for the state of the European solidarity in the sense of general harmony. Sure, they're not perfect and could use all manner of reform, plus their effectivity can always be questioned, but one should always keep foremost in mind that there were interest groups who profited from the World Wars. Similar interest groups could very well have a motivation to push for new conflict to emerge, but these sorts of pesky institutions tend to stand in the way of overtly aggressive behavior. Now with the worldwide recession a lot of interest groups with various agendas are looking for additional ways to generate profit, some of them with shadier methods, and it would serve them well to see Europe suffer in trying to stand against their criminal activities.

On another level, if someone wanted to destabilize Europe and open up venues for future conflict they would want to sponsor efforts that break down all sorts of alliances and agreements inside the continent, because with the EU and these sorts of councils and so forth it's not really clear how members would engage even in mere economic warfare against one another. When an enemy of Europe plays the long game they want us to raise generations of children who grow up in a culture of mutual conflict, and not generations of children who grow up in a culture of harmony and union.

[edmundflett]

8:51: 'ranging from the wide-scale abolition of the death penalty, to non-discrimination, and the fight against racism and gender equality'

This is why commas are important, kids.

[freedomismyreligion]

Thank you for this video! :) I'm fascinated by the complexity of our union.

[georgios_]

4:42 so the other guy's freedoms of expression and freedom of conscience were both trampled on for the gay activist who could have simply got his cake from another bakery. Nice.

[RWKIN]

With the membership of such nations as Russia or Poland with Hungary it seems, that CoE is a pretty hypocritic organisation.

[Bram]

Can you make a summary video about the 6 Institutions of the EU separation of powers? The executive, legislature, judiciary, central bank, etc.

[potts]

It will be interesting to see how the "gay cake" debate ends up in Europe compared to the United States.

[darkyada]

Where is the fight between Ukraine and Russia on the Council of Europe
(Also Strasbourg people are very proud of this Council lol)

[rin_etoware_]

imagine kicking up a big fuss over a damn cake