alt Hacker NewsSome think this is one of the major broken thing in the EU, the inability to handle quickly, speak with one voice.
Veto right is actually very undemocratic: A minuscule minority overrules the vast majority. but it was the only way to convince countries to form the EU.
And to be fair, it’s a way of protecting minorities.
> There is no realistic alternative to veto in the situation the EU is in.
Many many people disagree on this. There is no alternative to supporting Ukraine as much as possible. Very uncomfortable truth, shitty situation, and unfortunately, delusion/denial is a very common (and very relatable) human reaction to such situations.
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> A minuscule minority overrules the vast majority.
This is not a game of numbers, numbers would have some weight if decisions were affecting everyone equally, but the EU isn't homogeneous, foreign policy issues affect different countries differently depending on geography, culture and history e.g. Central Europe is much less exposed to adverse events, dependencies and risks than the periphery.
As I said before, now it's not the time for coercive changes, wait until integration takes its course and makes the political environment approximately the same for all members, the EU is far from that now.
> but it was the only way to convince countries to form the EU.
Then don't alter the deal and ask everyone to pray for not altering it any further.
> There is no alternative to supporting Ukraine as much as possible.
Depends on what each of the EU members considers possible and what risky - forcing some countries to go against their economic and political security will most likely lead to re-partitioning of Europe and another age of European wars.
It's quite disturbing to observe the continuous lack of an honest conversation about the political realities in Europe, which is precisely how the leading countries of the EU blew Ukraine / Russia... removing veto power only reduces the incentives for that to ever happen.
It's also a recipe for indecision and paralysis, see the term "Polish parliament", which refers to what helped bring the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, at the time one of the largest empires in Europe, to collapse.