The EU Parliament and the Treaty of Lisbon.

The EU-Parliament and its function within the European Union, explained as easy as possible under consideration of the changes caused by the Treaty of Lisbon, which is in force yet.

[QuantumBraced]

So no one drafting the Lisbon Treaty thought to give the "European Council" and the "Council of the European Union" different names to avoid confusion? The latter should really just be incorporated as a higher chamber of the European Parliament and renamed "European Council" and what's now known as "European Council" should be renamed to something entirely different.

[specialparadise]

Yes i know, its normal some of them to keep doing that but don't pay attention, let them talk you did what you had to do and honestly you deserve sheer congratulation!

[YNot]

This system is actually quite similar to what we had in America before 12th and 17th amendments. The Council of Ministers is essentially a Senate, which up until 1913 were not elected by the people in America; while the European Parliament is similar to the House of Representatives (or other Lower Houses) The European Commission is basically the executive branch, which to this day is not directly elected by the people in America, but rather a group of appointed Electors.

[Scurck]

Sweden already had a free trade agreement with most European countries prior to joining the EU.
Also, Sweden have saved billions of kronor by not adopting the Euro.

All elections, including for the EU-parliament are 100% about internal national politics.
All of the big parties work towards a European federation.
Very little information about the EU are published in state funded media (=all major media), so people do not know what the EU is about.

[suburbenyobbo]

Quote from Herman Van Rompuy, the EU President

"We have together to fight the danger of new Euroscepticism. The biggest enemy of Europe of Europe today is fear. Fear  leads to egoism, egoism leads to nationalism, and nationalism leads to war"

He claims that the biggest enemy of Europe, not the EU, is Euroscepticism. The EU is not a cause of peace it was a consequence of peace brought about by the defeat of Fascism. To imagine that the EU is a cause of peace is just another assumption by a presumptuous supra-national ideology. 

[nomore]

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“what does Europe mean?”
Well Europe is a continent that stretches from the Alantic Ocean to Central Asia Russia.

[Sean-snld]

I remember the vote for this in Ireland.

Voted no.

And then the government was like "are you sure??"

We went again and said yes, like we were told to.

It was a different world 15 years ago, so crazy to think how much has changed

[Spenner]

"Year after year, significant legal acts are decided on the European level, which have an impact on the rights and liberties of the citizens. How long shall we wait until the threshold of real democratic legitimacy is crossed?" (German law professor Frank Schorkopf regarding the Lisbon Treaty judgement of the German Constitutional Court ).

Google : No2Lisbon2, European Gendarmerie Force, Open Europe...and pray that the Irish say NO again and save European democracy !

[DarknesSoldier]

And what is EU causing? EU economy is stable, and just a few countries have a risk to default. But why is that? The countries are at fault themselves, and another reason is because the EU doesn't have much power over national budgets.

Just think, 27 countries moving in a direction they each other choose themselves. EU had a flaw from the start - it lack power over countries to decide their budgets, but that has already changed with the established banking union and other treaties.

[Psychosmurf]

Thanks for clarifying. However, I still say that each country working independently of the others would do better. The interests of the region as a whole cannot be accurately described seeing as how the interests of inland countries and coastal countries can be very different.

[Cornampoo]

Brilliant video. Simple and full of information.

[YNot]

Ha ha, the part regarding the politics of the European commission and the council of ministers sounds pretty familiar to those of us in America. That is how a federal republic with such a diverse collection of member-states ultimately works; its not pretty, but it sure reminds me how similar Europe and America really are when you get down to a few essentials.

[marcelpenuelatraub]

The Treaty of Lisbon essentially summarizes what the USA, the UK and Trump are so greedy for: power.

[Rmg]

alot of regeneration in cities across europe. my city has been directly improved by europe's funding (Liverpool) . Liverpool was britains richest city until the british empire fell in which it became one of the poorest, until the mid nineties in which EU funding has regenerated the whole city back into a clean modern city.

[thingy]

Dosnt anyone feel exited about the idea of 500 million citizens united in an allience? I personally think we're stronger as a union and although there is a lot of corruption and bureaucracy that needs to be sorted out i still think in theory the closer co-operation of European staes is a good thing and all European nations can learn alot from one another...

[OAlem]

So if it's so transparent can we at least know who the 3, 000 "working groups" ARE, the ones who actually write the laws?

[zoeverwers]

It's now actually 28 countries, including Croatia who joined in 2013

[thingy]

I understand your point but what has Europe done so wrong? Shared environmental goals for all its nations, better consumer protection for everyone and the protection of human rights for all of its citizens. Surely with reform of how the system works we can start to go further with EU integration with the European space programme or perhaps a European missile defence system. We can make this union benifit all EU nations if we just ignore the daily mail and give it a chance...

[jesoby]

bring on the referendum, we voted in 1975 for a Common Market not a Super state

[ioncristinaserenity]

very good !! thanks. I'm waiting for others videos :)