@ManjaSchledorn @EUCommission the "next elections" were the parliamentary elections you just had in The Netherlands and the Czech elections, the Polish elections, etc. That's who's in control of the EU, the 27 member states, they're driving this, the EC is their glorified civil service. #WTFisTheCouncil

@suijure What is "the will of the Europeans"? Do Europeans not already express their will in 27 European elections in which they designate their representatives in the 2 🇪🇺 institutions that control the EU? #WTFisTheCouncil

Since when does the European Commission represent Europeans v "global powers"? Who gave it a mandate to do foreign policy for both France and Austria or Latvia or Malta?

Again: who would you replace vdL with and who do you think the EUCO would replace her with?

@khaleesicodes @ElGrossKotzo Der EuGH wird das nicht durchgehen lassen, es ist absurd, dass sie es überhaupt versuchen. Bis das Gericht darüber entscheidet, werden Politiker wie der spanische Innenminister oder sein dänischer Kollege Hummelgaard höchstwahrscheinlich bereits in Rente sein oder durch die Drehtür der Wirtschaft gewechselt sein, daher ist es ihnen wohl egal. Die meisten Europäer haben keine Ahnung dass nationale Minister zu EU-Senatoren werden, die EU-Recht machen. #WTFistheCouncil

@gbrugman Thank YOU for being normal about it. :) Spreading the word about #WTFistheCouncil goes a long way towards no longer allowing our governments to hide behind "Brussels" as if the EU exists as a separate entity imposing things on them, as opposed to THEM making those laws.

@gbrugman Important to point out that Mr. Breyer, a former MEP, does not say "the EU" because he knows who's lying here: the upper chamber of the EU legislator, ie member states, our national governments. Our governments ARE the EU and make EU law and in his article he clearly states that the Council, ie our national governments, is lying about the lower chamber of the legislative, the European Parliament. #WTFistheCouncil

@teclista @ElSaltoDiario Recuerdo haber visto fotos de Johansson y el tipo de Dude Where's My Car hace algunos años, realmente vivimos en la línea temporal más estúpida.

El hecho de que Marlaska y su colega de la izquierda danésa que se está haciendo famoso en Mastodon, el Sr. Hummelgaards, ya no estén en el poder cuando, inevitablemente, el TJUE inflija a los gobiernos del #WTFistheCouncil una humillante derrota al derogar esta ley, no es ningún consuelo.

@tbhdk Jeg er glad for at gøre hr. Hummelgaard til hovedpersonen i #WTFistheCouncil på Mastodon. Han vil være et perfekt eksempel på, hvad »EU« er, og hvem der kontrollerer det (vores nationale regeringer).

@gerbrand @chatcontrol Denmark IS the EU.

Every time Mr. Hummelgaard goes to Brussels, he transforms from a Minister (executive branch at the national level) into an EU "Senator" (🇪🇺 legislative branch) who makes and negotiates and votes on EU law as a member of the upper chamber of the EU legislative branch, the #WTFistheCouncil
And this law is his baby:

https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115204439983078498

@lori @randahl MEPs have no say in it. Once a country becomes an EU member, nobody outside that country does as there is no way to end a country's membership against its wish. Other sanctions are also not decided by MEPs but by the other 26 member states #WTFistheCouncil

@xChaos @tymoty @askihk No tengo tiempo para ponerme al día, así que supongo que estoy aquí para recordarnos que el Parlamento Europeo es bicameral, que la cámara baja vota en público (sobre toda la legislación, no solo sobre los cables, véase: trílogos), mientras que la cámara alta, #WTFistheCouncil , el "Senado", negocia principalmente en secreto a puerta cerrada y que los ministros nacionales se convierten en senadores que votan la legislación 🇪🇺, como este señor:

https://infosec.exchange/@tomgag/115208691860613648

Lo de la mayoría de los Estados miembros es 😄. El equivalente sociológico al agitar los brazos mientras ayudas a un compañero de clase a responder a una pregunta. En vano, #WTFistheCouncil es una capa de ignorancia demasiado gruesa como para ser derretida con insinuaciones. Y ¿de qué mayoría estamos hablando? Hay un (1) país de 27 que no depende militarmente y que lleva décadas gritando a los demás que rompan la dependencia militar que está detrás de todo esto.

#EUpol #UE #Europa #política

@euobserver "the real democratic gap lies in domestic politics" 💯 #WTFistheCouncil

@UmWerker Was hat vdL damit zu tun? Sie ist keine absolute Monarchin, sie ist nicht einmal das exekutive Oberhaupt der EU, das sind die 27 Staats- und Regierungschefs im Europäischen Rat. #WTFistheCouncil
Und die haben immer noch keine rechtliche Handhabe, ein Land gegen seinen Willen rauszuschmeißen. Es gibt keinen. Nach den geltenden EU-Verträgen kann ein Land nur auf die gleiche Weise austreten, wie es beigetreten ist: freiwillig.

@lobonegro Otro tema es: ¿quién es la UE? ¿Cuál es el apetito por el riesgo y por aumentar la inflación para los consumidores (porque así es como se ven la mayoría de los ciudadanos) entre los gobiernos de los estaditos miembros 🇪🇺? Tienes razón, cambiaron de rumbo porque los estaditos miembros NUNCA habrían permitido que la Comisión aumentara la inflación y los aranceles de tipo suizo para sus tesoros nacionales (coches en Alemania y España, vino y aeroespacial en Francia, etc). #WTFistheCouncil

@christianschwaegerl what a great opportunity for EUropean journalists to educate Europeans on the best kept secret in EU politics: #WTFistheCouncil
To say nothing on how the EU budget works, how underfinanced the EU is or how uh... foreign direct investment works or what the Commission does (hint: not foreign direct investment).

@jmkorhonen.fi the notion that this would be decided by the ECB board in Frankfurt, lol... No, the room in which that decision would be made is the EUCO Hummus Room in Brussels and the answer is: eurobonds (like any other war ever, the answer is: debt) and small countries are all the better for it. #WTFistheCouncil

@boab @EUCommission I don't think most people commenting in this thread (nor most European journalists) have read even the brief explainer about what this "deal" is or can explain what they're mad about, but maybe I'm wrong. Most EUropeans have no idea and not much interest in how our Union works, who decides what or #WTFistheCouncil because the EU is booooring while US politics are "fun" and trashy and usually safe to rubberneck at from a distance. This has consequences: https://eupolicy.social/@Veza85UE/113905797328454363

@antaeus "the EU" doesn't buy stuff from the US, it's a free market economy, the Commission doesn't run a Soviet state that spends 600 billion of public money "we" are "giving". Private businesses invest in the US or any other country, not "the EU", 600bn is roughly the amount EU private businesses *already* invest in the US over 4/5 years. Also, this isn't a treaty, or much of an agreement, it's non-legally binding because how could it be, lol. #WTFistheCouncil

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_25_1930

@KasperNicolaisen @EUCommission What a great week for #WTFistheCouncil lots of Europeans might finally learn who actually runs the EU (not your MEP...) I've seen a lot of (predominantly men, not that Sabine Weyand isn't used to it) helpful Mastodoners write How to Go to Trade War with Your Security Provider on Whom You Depend for Most Military Capabilities guidelines and they always start with join China, duh. I have some questions, such as: is China replacing US aid to Ukraine in your scenario?

@pa79 @EUCommission er... Yes? #DidntReadTheSourceMaterial

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/fr/qanda_25_1930

Some of you are about to find out #WTFistheCouncil but only because 'merica is the Main Character and the centre of your universe, otherwise our Union is way too boring to learn its basics.