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Uploaded by on Apr 6, 2009

THIS IS AN EXPLANATION OF THE SITUATION BEFORE THE LISBON TREATY BECAME EFFECTIVE!

In this video I attempt to explain the influence of the European Parliament on legislation and on how the EU's budget is spent.

(I published this video as a part of the Th!nk About It blogging competition: http://thinkaboutit.eu)

Sources:
http://www.europa-nu.nl
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europese_Unie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
http://www.europarl.europa.eu
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Result.do?RechType=RECH_celex&lang=en&code=3...)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2006:139:0001:0017...
http://ec.europa.eu/budget/budget_glance/index_en.htm
http://www.europamorgen.nl/9353000/1/j9vvhjdld5qbiyg/vgaaaujza2vo

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  • Good video, but you forgot that the EP is electing the commission! That is a crucial power and opporunity to influence the direction of the EU.

  • Interesting. That didn't come up during my research. Could you point me to some sources about that?

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  • @Spenner56 Thanks from Holland. This is very interesting but please democracy is only a cover to thoese bankers who creat the debt situ. If the goverment takes back the wright to print its own money intrest free then you dont need democracy but administerators who should be the best qualifihed. The bankers rule over all democratic countries, till the world bank rules the world.

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  • Very useful! Thank you.

  • at 2:35 the cow is producing what the EU produces- BULLSHIT!

  • @Sliepnir2006 Well said pal.Since when has any northern European nation needed latin nations picking their pockets because they have a total inability to do hard work.

    Southern Europe may as well be Africa and Eastern Europe wants a hand out not to contribute.It's like carring a dead wieght around or expecting to compete in a Marathon pushing someone in a Wheelchair who refuses to stand up and run themselves!

    Long live national independance and fuck the EU!

  • @PESactivists The True Finns, and UKIP are the beginning signs of change. I hope sometime, this overpowered, corrupt and vile institution will be pulled down. I feel deeply sorry for the people of Greece, like Norway and like Britain they should never have become part of the dream ticket sold by the European Parliament, they should have kept out of the Mickey Mouse Euro and left it well alone.

    I hope Britain will leave, and Finland along with Norway, damn and down the European Parliament!

  • @PESactivists Long gone time for people to take back their Democracy from this parasite in the Center of Europe, I am glad to see that now apart from the UK, there is a rising rank of dissention against the European Parliament, it is a dictatorship in the making, no better than the Stalin or the Nazis.

    It is controlled by the Stock Markets, banks and Big Business and is not representative of democracy and if Allowed to continue in its present form it will mercilessly bankrupt lives.

  • @TheGrassWhistler It's easy for people from the members to enter other countries, but for those outside the EU it's a hell of a lot harder to get in.

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