Okay, we know that the US can’t be trusted because it’s political compass wil lalways be changing. So what now? We need to organize, but how? Volt Europa is pretty weak and several people I have met have expressed dislike for them, the EU is gonna be reactive instead of proactive towards threats as always, Elon is trying to buy out more parties in EU…

How to proceed? Anything to do that doesn’t seem hopeless, like voting for paneuropean parties, or leaving US based platforms for EU based, less developed platforms (like Peertube instead of Youtube, or Matrix instead of Whatsapp?

I wish EU was stronger and both the EU and its citizens (and netizens) les reliant on external services (like youtube, reddit, whatsapp, discord, etc.), and I want to do something about it, but I feel completely lost and hopeless.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    The current problem is that the EU is not very democratic and dominated by a few large member states. As long as there isn’t an effort to limit the power of these overly large states, the smaller ones will never agree to more integration as it would just mean assimilation for them.

    • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      dominated by a few large member states.

      I do agree that the EU should be more democratic, it’s always annoyed me.

      You mean France/German EU axis? There’s also a positive discrimination/preference for founding & larger members. But since EU is mainly alot of smaller states and some bigger states, I mean the bigger ones do have more people (and money). How would you even that out?

      Seems though times are changing , i e. current Polish EU council presidency ( and their role in leading the House) and also Kallas.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Germany for example could easily be split up into its federal states and those could have a representation at EU level. The same is true for Spain and to a lesser extend France and Italy.

        • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 hours ago

          Could be a way. Maybe in some decades, but not in the short term. Not sure Germany is the best example, as it was relatively recently unified. Unification and Splitting up, can be a charged subject too (Serbia & Moldova; Romania & Transistria etc. etc).

          Though splitting up countries in more automous provinces/cantons, would be a big plus for more direct democracy in the future, if and when people and local government can be trusted. which at the moment is a big “if”.