The European Commission Explained - TLDR News

The EU is a complicated organization, made up of many people and institutions. In this video we break down what the European Commission is, what it does and how it's chosen.

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[Trashplat]

I absolutely love that you're making this channel! It's so much research and it's lovely that you're doing this, even though you're British and could, you know, "stop caring" soon.

[adamtrunecka]

just nitpicking: I would not formulate it in the way that the Constitution would make the EU too powerful, because the Lisbon Treaty delivered extremely similar changes to how the EU works. The main difference between them is that the Constitution doesn't unite all Treaties into one (which is the Constitution) and in naming of things - European laws etc.

[hannahg]

Just a friendly site note: it's pronouced Oorzoola fon der Lion.

[Vienna]

I’m an American planning on moving to Ireland so these videos help me understand the EU better

[Trashplat]

Just a nitpicky correction: "von der Leyen" is pronounced
• with a hard F in "von", like in "French"
• and the "Leyen" is pronounced like "to lie" (this is not a joke 😅)

[mitchjervis]

Actually, the European Parliament must also confirm the Commission President proposal of the Eurooean Council before he\she forms the College and comes before the Parliament for a confidence vote.

[verttikoo]

You could next explain the Eurozone and the European Central Bank 🏦

[ChristianIce]

The structure of the EU is the pinnacle of democracy.
Usually, in every nation, you have a party/coalition in power, meaning a view of the situation through biased lens.
The European Commission listen to all the voices and analyze the situation in a (for what is humanly possible) objective way.
Yet, they can't impose anything on the parliament, so there will always be the scrutiny from who was directly elected.
I wish my national parliament would work the same way, we would save 90% of the time currently wasted in propaganda, self promotion, empty promises and tons of lies.

[Watergox]

I really like this video. However, I think it tends to overstate the complexity of the EU system (which is some kind of a narrative topos). There is a number of academics that have argued that you could really speak about EU institutions as you would speak of any state institution. After all, the Council (although more powerful) is comparable to the Bundesrat, the commission looks very much like a government (and for what concerns its two level structure, italy does the same with ministri and sottosegretari) and the parliament, well, its a parliament. The only two really relevant differences are: the rule of unanimity (that should be scrapped) and the fact that the Council acts at the same time as some sort of an head of state for the European Union, which is kind of confusing.

[clmdcc]

Sometimes it feels the EU is more of a trade league than a superstate.

[Welgeldiguniekalias]

The European Commission is one of the best thought through and best performing institutions of the EU. Accountability is terrible, of course. It really is very similar to an actual government, also in that aspect.

[peterfireflylund]

Huh? What about the Santer Commission and Edith Cresson?

[nikoladoctorov]

Ty for covering that topic, m8.. As a Bulgarian i never clearly knew what the EU comm does

[joonasturunen]

There actually is a political agreement between the Commission and the Parliament about removing individual Commissioners. When the Parliament expresses lack of confidence in an individual member of the the Commission, the President of the Commission has to request the resignation of that Commissioner which they must follow under EU law or to explain to the Parliament why she refuses to do so.

[TheHollandHS]

We should compare the EU structure to each national structures of the member states how they differ to get the picture . Including the UK who left the EU.

[TheSovereign]

wat r the viable solutions to some of the problems u might c in the commission?

[DaDunge]

No I think the commission is a bit to powerful compared to the parliament who are after all elected by the people.

[jocelynyared]

Who does the Commission Pres answer to? From the news, it looked like van der leyen holds a higher position than the ones who put her in office.

[tnhnoztel]

these videos imo are more complicated than they have to be

[Fohgnippil]

i have a feeling that all of this is purposly complicated so to net get people riled up