[QUOTE=Optimist;2125001]CK. I read your reference to the article by Ellery in Huffington Post in the context of him being a high profile campaigner for leaving the EU.
He does point up the well established "democratic deficit" in the EU. Other non campaigning authors have suggested that this deficit has been slightly reduced by changes in recent years and may continue to be decreased slowly.
The Council of the EU is made up of national politicians, and it could be argued that this is a significant democratic input. In practice the EU is not mainly a independent entity: the power remains with elected national politicians.
Regardless of all that, UK citizens will probably from 2020 need a visa waiver to enter the EU, which may or may not become more or less democratic. As long as they let me in to visit FKKs I am happy :)
And as long as the pilot and co-pilot don't row and leave the cockpit midflight with the plane flying itself (plane from London on 1 January: discussions on democratic deficit can get heated)[/QUOTE]O, the thing that really got me interested in the EU was a documentary in 2014 called Euromania by a young Dutch fella called Peter Vlemmix long before Brexit was even a word.
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO4Ayo4mYZg[/URL]
The bit at 22:00 where the EU attempted to ban porn in all media using a report called "eliminating gender stereotypes" got my attention. When people (well, men) of Europe found out and started emailing the EU to voice their opinions, a filter was added to block any messages containing the word 'porn'.
Shady fuckers.
