• tal@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    The vote passed with a razor-thin majority of 291 votes in favour to 274 against, with 44 abstentions.

    That sounds problematic for this making it. This is a treaty revision, so the bar for this going through is unanimity of member states. While technically, having a MEP vote one way doesn’t mean that their state must have the same position, if about half of the EU is opposed, it seems very likely that this is a long way from unanimity of states.

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      11 months ago

      It is also the only way to prevent the EU from collapsing under an almost byzantine but wholly impotent bureaucracy. Even if this causes the usual obstructionists to leave, the better off the union will be. Europe must become a true federal state, instead of institutionalized bickering and infighting.