How the EU Institutions Function

Do you KNOW how the EU is governed? What are the important institutions? How they work together?

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[quellfeuer]

thank you, really informative and your drawing of Wilders is really "on fleek"

[masterPlol]

Damn, Belgium has 96 seats AND 21 seats? Also where is Germany?

[tirex]

2:03 and 2:13, the order of the colors of the german flag is wrong

[michellekellogg]

your channel is gonna help me with my social studies

[lafrano]

I passed my exam because of your videos. Thanks a lot! ❤

[steiraman]

The most important point is the council and the unanimity rule, because without the council nothing gets done in the EU, so ministers out of 28 different countries need to come together and agree on something in order to get something done, and when they come home again and face concerns, they complain about the EU. This has to change. An elected chamber where member states intrests are regarder, maybe similar to the US senate and where a so called qualified mayority or maybe even a 50%+1 mayority is enough.

[thattimestampguy]

0:34 European Council 🇪🇺
28 Heads of State [Chancellors, Presidents and Prime Ministers]

0:58 The Council Directed the 28 Member Comission to draft European Union Law 🇪🇺

1:28 Every member has 1/28 say in creating The Laws of the European Union 🇪🇺

1:49 The European Parliament is determined by population, with a minimum of 6 seats for everyone. 🇪🇺

2:33 2016 European Union 🇪🇺 Seating
2:55 European Union 🇪🇺 Political Parties

3:08 Parliament
decides to pass or send back to the Commission
3:55 Voters tend to decide in National not European issues

4:56 The council of ministers.
• Agriculture 👩🏻‍🌾
• Finance 🪙

5:39 European Court of Justice 🇪🇺

6:07 Brussels and Strasbourg

6:55 Iceland 🇮🇸 Sweden 🇸🇪
And Switzerland 🇨🇭

[danraes]

3:41 you’ve put the romanian flag on top of bulgaria mate🤣 great video anyway !

[ahmetsungur]

Very simple and helpful. Thank you mate

[Ivancukic]

Thank you for this video! Helped a lot on my exam

[ishratkhan]

Awesome! My constitution law class is prepared after seeing this video THANK YOU!

[gladysify]

Thanks for the knowledge. Very informative.

[hauskalainen]

just because the EU parliament cannot modify proposed laws without consent from the commission does not make it undemocratic. It still means that laws that ARE passed still have consent from the democratic elected representatives of the people. After all the House of Lords is not democratically elected and yet it can modify bills proposed by the government formed from the elected commons. The UK system is only partly democratic too.

[BmxBarlow]

Thank you so much for the concise information

[taraldarion]

2:12 you made the belgium flag twice instad of Germany and belgium

[TEXNORRIS]

Good but way too short. Can you do one in which you talk about coreper I and II?

[sionsmedia]

EU as a global power. You totally need the EU because that's the only way to get on par with countries like the US, or China, or Japan, ignore the fact Japan is the same size as many countries in the EU, we would never be able to stand up to them.

[superraegun]

the European council barely got a mention. I thought is was them who gave the commission the general idea, of which they would draft the actual laws from, like the civil service. Do the European commission have power? I thought is was more independence. There is still a democratic deficit, but I didn't think it was as bad as people said, that was just Eurosceptics exaggerating the power the commission has. The problem with giving the elected members of parliament power is it makes the countries less sovereign. It's balancing on a knife's edge.

[andywppl]

Well de iure Switzerland is not a member of the EEA, but has bilateral agreements with the EU that effectively make it a de facto member.

[petrosbekhet]

Not a single dislike, because you rock. Awesome video.