Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?

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Being a citizen of the European Union means that many aspects of our lives are regulated by a weird entity. It feels like a huge bureaucracy is making decisions over our heads. How democratic is the EU really and does your vote actually affect anything?

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[_intrepid]

It's quite symbolic that bird-politicians who can fly are sitting around in flying machines.

[ProbablyRv]

Animator : how many brexit jokes n references do you want?
Kurzgesagt : *yes*

[kurzgesagt]

Thanks to all the YouTubers who translated the video! 🇪🇺

[riesenflugzeug]

i like how the animators animate the UK going away every scene that included it

[winsenken]

I love how the bird representing UK just slowly flies away 3:02

[Stelum]

"Democracy is annoying."


Kurzgesagt is clearly advocating for a one-party dictatorship with Birdy McBirdface as supreme leader of the Greater Kurzgesagtian Empire.

[ara]

2:00 and 3:00 - I love the little details like UK moving away in both scenes and also the "Merkel"-feature of the German bird :D

[DasAlpaka]

Finaly a map of the EU, where Switzerland exists and is not a part of it.

[vikkihall-webster]

As a US citizen I was always a bit mystified over the structure and workings of the EU. Thank you for your review -- I found it interesting and informative.

[gregoryf.]

The "Opinion" part of the video is very important to include. Too many content creators dictate their opinion as fact. Thank you for honesty and transparency.

[pedrocarvalho]

4:18 TIER ZOO REFERENCE.
Both great channels and Kurzgesagt saw, I LOVE IT.

[obliviouspotato]

I love how at 2:04 Britain floats away from the map and then slowly edges back in

Edit: UK, not Britain. I keep forgetting that “United Kingdom” and “Great Britain” are not synonymous

[paudda]

I think it is crazy that the european council, the council of the european union and the council of europe are three seperate institutions.

[DavidAJBoyle]

3:03 the little GB bird flying away, I'm done.

[namenamename]

"...polticians are even worse at naming things than scientists..."
I love this

[sevencillo]

I like the fact that some of these "politicians" are vultures.

[LeLaidbackLauncher]

My family is Bulgarian, so naturally, I speak Bulgarian too. But after living most of my life in the states, speaking English, I've forgotten most of my mother tongue.

I really appreciate that you have subtitles for most EU member state languages. Through combining something in genuinely curious about with real time translations to that language, I learn more in total than I ever did.

[ambe]

2:03 The UK, slowly sailing away from the EU.

[balmain-ie]

I heard EU was looking kinda sexy because it lost a few hundred pounds