 Ich freue mich sehr, einen wirklichen EU-Experten auf dieser Bühne begrüßen zu dürfen. Ich bin glücklich auf ein realer Experte in der EU-Affäre. Das ist Dustin Hoffmann. Er möchte uns ein bisschen über die EU und ihre Institutionen sprechen. Ich denke, es ist unglaublich, dass seit 71 Jahren mehr als 300 Mio. Menschen in Europa sind. Trotzdem entsteht eine unglaubliche Komplexität. Es gibt immer noch ein paar komplexe Systeme, die zusammenarbeiten zwischen den 28 Ländern in einer Union. Das hat Benefits und aber auch negative Seile. Dustin erklärt uns viel über das. Aber das ist immer noch eine Union und wir haben Peace. Hallo. Hallo. Perfekt. Vielen Dank für die Einführung. Ich bin Dustin Hoffmann. Ich bin der Head of Office of the Office of Martin Sonneborn, German MEP, Member of the European Parliament. Ich habe Legal Training. Ich habe landet in Brussels. Ich bin sehr glatt, dass ich euch ein bisschen über die EU-Institutionen erzähle. Besonders, weil es nächste Jahr eine Election sein wird. Ihr habt schon ein paar Dinge gehört. Es scheint, dass das der Dealbreaker für die EU-Elektion sein wird. Ich möchte euch ein breites Bild über die Institutionen erzählen. Ich bin besonders glatt, hier zu sprechen. Ich habe vorhin gehört, dass viele von den Polizistinnen und Polizisten, wie ich, viele wissen es vielleicht nicht, dass ich das habe gehört. Ich habe vorhin gehört, dass viele von euch hier im Publikum die gleichen Positionen haben. Ich habe den Polizisten in der Union gehört. Ich habe einen Aufruf. Das war ich. Ich war der einzige, member der EU-Parlament, und hatte eine Adresse über den Staat der Union. Ich habe es immer nicht gehört. Als er die Herrschaft des Staates nicht verabschiedet wurde, viele Leute waren überrascht, aber ich wusste es nicht. So, anyway, gehen wir zu den Content. Es wird eine broad Overview sein, weil ich erwartet habe, dass ihr nichts kennt. Die Institutionen oder gar nichts zu stellen. Es könnte nicht interessant sein, aber für viele von euch wird es interessant. Ich gebe euch eine breitere Bildung von allen Institutionen, die ein System der Lawmaking sind, besonders der Europäischen Parlament. Ich erkläre, wie die Laws in der Union sind. Ich hoffe, dass die zuständig ein bisschen ankommt. Aber ich möchte, dass ihr euch ein bisschen über das Gespräch in der Union habt. Ich möchte, dass ihr ein paar Terms in eurem Kopf habt. Ihr versteht das, weil, wenn die Medien über die europäischen Entscheidungen starten, es wird wichtig, dass ihr wissen, was die Worte und die Nahrung sind. Für Beispiel, gibt es ein Thema, die Kopie-Reform, die ein Teil der Trilogy ist. Und ihr müsst verstehen, was die Trilogy bedeutet, für Beispiel. So, starten wir mit den Institutionen der Europäischen Union. Als Teil der Trilogy der Europäischen Union gibt es ein paar Institutionen. Es gibt den Parlament, der Council, der Europäische Parlament, der Europäische Council und der Council der Europäischen Union. Nicht mit den Europäischen Councils. Hier sieht es, die Europäische Zentralbank und die Europäische 46-Jährige und die Europäische So, let's take a closer look on the top four and a special focus on those three. Because those three are the ones that are responsible for a European legislation procedure. Es gibt neben den Organen noch allerhand Agenturen. Besides of those institutions, there are also a lot of other institutions. Just have a look at it to see that they are like plenty. Das sind einige, die auch kennt. Some of those are now, they do some special, they have special like FranTechs. The European policy, the European, those institutions are spread all around Korea so that everybody can take share of the European Union. Those who are responsible for the legislation procedure, it's the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission. Die Aufteilung der Dreien ist so, dass die Europäische Kommission, das Europäische Parlament und der Rat der Europäischen Union, makes the proposals of the legislation and then the Council and the European Parliament, they decide on each other how to develop those legislative procedures. Most of the work is done in the nice city of Brussels. I take you on a journey to the capital of Belgium. Belgium, Brussels is known for many things. For example, chocolate, waffles, beer, beer, there is a very good beer culture in Belgium. And the European Union, in official the capital of the European Union, were most of the institutions allocated. I don't know who has been in Brussels before, but everything is very close to each other. This is the European Council. Next, there is the... ...genau gegenüber auf der anderen Straßenseite. Just across, it's the building of the European Commission, where the President of the European Commission is situated. This quarter is not only known to be the European quarter, but all the buildings are related to the European Union. There are more than 30,000 people working for the European Union. And all buildings that don't belong to the commissions are used by agencies, institutions. Everything is European Union and in the weekend there is nothing going on. So a little bit artificial, but we just spread around there. But if you walk like 10 minutes by foot, you reach the European Parliament, the European representation of the citizens. It's like the European Commission, it's not restricted to the splitting. There are also the rooms for trainings, we spread. And like all of you come to Brussels, go there on a Thursday night, because the working weeks of the Europeans, the MEPs, the members of the European Union, they don't live in Brussels, but they just come there and stay until Thursday. They leave during the day. That is why there is this nice tradition in Brussels on this place. Let's look some more. All the restaurants, they put some beer stands outside and they are just like a bunch of young people thousands. They meet each week. It's very nice to look at. If you're close by, never forget to join on Thursday nights. So, fange ich mit der Europäischen Kommission an. So, let's start with the European Commission. It's the executive of the European music. There's like the crazy government, but not the real government. In the beginning of the legislation procedure, the European Parliament confirms the European Commission. They do it once. This is a very important role to understand the voting procedure in the European Parliament. I'll come back to that later. What's very important is that the Commission has the only right for an initiative to start a legislation procedure. In Germany, the parliament can put in some legislation procedure, but in Brussels, they cannot do it. That's why some people laugh at the European Parliament. But we're not that far in Brussels. It's also known as the keeper of the contracts. So, they check if some member states do not are not confirmed with the law. Then the Commission will take a look and might initiate a procedure against the member states. It's led through the president of the European Commission. That's this guy, John F. Jones. Some of you might know him, because he's president of the Lux-Leaks-Affäre. But you might ask me now for the Lux-Leaks-Affäre, because he was former president of Lux-Leaks-Affäre. Er war erst auch bekannt für sein Verhalten. Ich habe einen Klipp mitgebracht von Jean-Claude Juncker bei einem short Video von John Claude Juncker during the last Brexit meeting. It might be known to some of you. Ja, ja. So, machen wir das in Brussels? That's how we do in Brussels. You see, there are like a lot of funny videos of him. There are some videos where he kicked to the other head of state. There is one video where he didn't realize the microphone was on when Viktor Orban was approaching him. And he said, oh, there is a dictator coming. Es gibt unterschiedliche Gerüchte. There are different rumors, why he is, why he is. But in this huge audience, I don't want to spread any rumors. It's what makes them nice person. The European Commission isn't only led by the president, but it's constituted of commissioners from every member state. So, every member state can send a commissioner to the European Commission. So, the European Council makes a proposal for the president of the European Commission. The European Parliament can say yes or no, but it should reflect the opinion of the voters. Then the president will make a proposal with the commissioners from each member state. They will visit the parliament and in some hearings they have to defend the questions of the European Parliament. So, the parent has to drill them and ask questions and they will then confirm each commissioner. I present it to you, Jean-Claude Juncker. But there are some that you should know like Franz Timmermans. It's the vice president. Or the foreign responsible for foreign affairs and security policy. He is known as well as the German commissioner. He is responsible for budget and human resources. But as we all know, he started as the digital commissioner. His heritage, we have to deal with his heritage today. The restriction article 11 for press and communication. Einer der Kommissare mit den meisten Lobby treffen. It's one of the commissioners with most of Lobby's meetings. He said, yes, nobody can tell me I'm not working a lot. Er ist immer wieder in den Schlagzeilen, weil er irgendwelche Affären an der Backe hatte. He makes a lot of headlines because he's flying to Viktor Ovan in his private jet. And in a hearing afterwards, he said, yes, I'm hiding behind newspapers. In case someone speaks to me, it might be an transparent, loving meeting. Those are his problems, but in politics, some people just bring their own jets off. Another woman that you should know, ist die Wettbewerbskommissarin. It's our competitor, competition commissioner. Sie ist dann, dass sie es geschafft hat, wenn Wettbewerbsfragen und Kartellfragen allen Unternehmen in der Welt schrecken zu lernen. So, she did the good job of teaching all the companies that they should be afraid of European competition law. They are all shrinking in their seats when they have to listen when they hear about the German competition law. So, there's also a bunch of different councils. So, there's the Council of the European Union, the European Council and the European Council and the Council of Europe. So, the first one, the Council of the European Union is one of the co-legislators. So, there's all of the specific ministers in the member states working on a specific issue. Then there's the European Council, which is when all of the heads of states get together. That's what you know from the TV, for example. And I live in the area where they meet. So, whenever that happens, I can't sleep because there's helicopters in the air all of the time. So, they do not work on legislation per se, but they give the guidelines. And they make the big decisions basically. And then there's also the Council of Europe, which is a totally different organisation. It's a European international organisation with 47 member states, including Russia and other states in Eastern Europe. They work on human rights. That's where different member states meet. For example, the European Charter of Human Rights is guarded by the Council of Europe. If you were, for example, in Tiefles before, in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, there's also European flags hanging around everywhere, but that's because the Council of Europe also has the same flag as the European Union. So, that's also all quite confusing. Here you can see Donald Tusk. He's the president of the European Council. He's Polish. And he's coordinating together with his General Secretary all of the meetings of the Council, the heads of state. And usually, there used to be a rotation every half year, but now there's like one head of the Council. Here, there's the new building that they have there, where they meet. It's beautiful, I'd like to show it for that. So, back there, there's this egg-shaped thing. They have the facade made out of restored windows, recycled windows from all over Europe. It's beautiful, right? So, let's move on to the other Council, the more important one. It's the Council of the European Union, and that's part of the legislative process, so that's where all of the ministers come together. About the budget of the European Union, they have an important role in the treaties that the European Union takes part in for the member states, and also for economic policies and common agriculture policy and defense. It is not elected. It's kind of a democratically legitimate because the people that take decisions there are sent from the member states and those member states have elected governments, but like it's a lot longer chain of responsibility compared to the European Parliament. There's quite a disadvantage, actually. So, in this Council, the Presidency changes between different countries so in the past. For example, now it has been Austria for the past half year, and next year it's going to be Romania for the next half year. And they look at what's under the agenda for legislation that we're going to pass in the European Union. The quality of these prejudices is very dependent on those countries. Some of the smaller countries feel like this is quite some pride in taking over this Council role, Presidency role, and they invest a lot of energy and time. Well, if Germany does that, then just gets mentioned in the news, I guess. So, here we can take a look at the next couple of years. Next up it's going to be Romania. The expectations are not that high after all. I mean, like, mit Austria, it was quite bad. Well, it's a bad time. So, the Council of the European Union has a bunch of sub-Councils. They're kind of like comedies in the Parliament. So, the one for the General Affairs Council is the one that is coordinating all of the things. It does everything that doesn't really fit into all of their other fields. For example, also constitutional things. It kind of works like in a Parliament, just that it's ministers from the member states that come together. One of the hardest things about this is that there is a different way of finding majorities in the Council than in Parliament. You don't have to find 50% of the people there, but rather for easy things, for less important things, it's enough to find a normal majority, so 15 out of 28 member states. But for some, for the more important things, you need a qualified majority, which is at least 55% of the member states that represent at least 65% of the population of the European Union have to agree. So, there is a way for only four member states that represent 35% of the population to have a veto against everything. And as the Council is part of the co-legislation process with the Commission and the Parliament and has to agree to everything, it's really, really hard to pass any laws in the European Union without the support of the member states. With this complicated system, the negotiations between the co-legislators get even more complicated. For instance, if there's a new membership of the European Union, they have to be like with all the votes. So this makes everything very difficult, as all member states have very different interests in some areas. The European Parliament. It's located in Strasbourg. Now you might be surprised, because at the beginning I showed you what it looks like in Brussels. So, it's also located in Brussels and Luxembourg. Das hat historische Gründe in den Verträgen steht. Das ist due to historic reasons. As the European Parliament is 12 times a year in Strasbourg. As a consequence, the Brussels is the area of work. So the whole institution moves to Strasbourg 12 years. So we have like whole trains, buses, some people take the plane, some members of parliament come by car from the member states. The whole is very surprise, and from Monday to Thursday there are all the sessions. And then everybody goes back. The problem is that the European Parliament cannot decide on where it wants to hold the meetings. So, within the constitution, that they have to be in Strasbourg 12 times a year, to change this constitution, we need the votes of all member states. And there's one member state that's not at all interested in changing this constitution. Frankreich. France. This is why the European Parliament, they did in a lot of meetings, they decide they don't want to do this anymore. It cost like between 20 resume and 80 millions a year. Strasbourg ist so ein schöner Stadt, but Strasbourg is a nice City. It was in the media a few weeks ago all the Christmas market of Europe. But we also have other institutions. This is the building of the European Court of Justice, they are at the Human Rights Convention, des Human Rights Convention, und Sie wissen, das ist ein ganz Mahlereschein, wie es uns zu kürzeren ist, und dann haben wir die... So, habe ich schon gesagt, einzig direkt gewirrt, das ist die einzige oder die einzige oder die einzige, die direkt gewirrt ist, das ist die einzige, die der weltweite Supernational Constitution der Welt. Es ist ein Ko-Konstitut. Der Ko-Gesetzgeber, 751 Abgeordnete. Es gibt 751 Mitglieder des Parlamentes, 751 Mitglieder des Parlamentes, 751 Mitglieder des Präsidenten der Europäischen Parlament. Ich sage, als ich heute gesagt habe, ich werde das sagen. Wir müssen wissen, dass es diskussiv und proportional ist. Das bedeutet, dass alle Mitglieder, die mindestens 6 Szenen haben, und ein Maximum von 96 Szenen haben. Es gibt ein Maximum, das ist Deutschland, und ein Maximum, das ist Germany. Es gibt viele kleine Szenen, wie Mikelern, Cyprus, die nur 6 Szenen von den Parlamenten haben. Es ist nicht sehr demokratisch, weil alle Mitglieder, die das Votum der Europäischen Parlament haben, die das gleiche als die Votum der Europäischen Parlament haben. Aber wenn wir das wirklich nach der Votum des Europäischen Parlamentes richtig verabschiedet haben, dann sollte das Votum der Europäischen Parlament sehr, sehr laut sein. Oder die kleinen Länder hätten eigentlich... ...small Länder, die eigentlich gar keine Repräsentationen haben. Das ist so, dass man zum Schluss gekommen ist, dass Deutschland nach Deutschland... ...wird das Parlament ein bisschen kleiner. In der nächsten Election, der size of the parliament should be reduced, because we expect that in March one member state will leave our union, so that we only have 7 or 5 members of parliament. All the seats of Britain should be discriminated to some kind of member states that were at a disadvantage not Germany. Some should be left empty in case for project sanctions of the European Union. And some should be raised. But that didn't happen. But I will explain later in the context of the European elections. Every member state is responsible for their own elections. You can elect the parties as you know them for all German elections. This is why they... There are no transnational candidates, so you cannot vote for candidates from France or from Greece, as a effect. A German member of your parliament might not be interested in German politics for a Greek member of parliament. So that's the goal of many people who are for our transnational European Union to have like transnational candidates. So the European Union does the rough right frameworks during the direct vote. There are just some laws and timing, but there are no real European elections. There are some head candidates. They are unofficial. And that's like something the European Parliament von den Kommissionspräsidentschaftskandidaten unter Berücksichtigung des Wahlergebietes vorschlägt. Und von 2014 vor der Wahl haben sich die Spitzenhoferkommission des Präsidenten, wo er sagen muss, dass wir nur einen Kandidaten wählen werden. Der Vorherspitzkandidat an der Europäischen Partei ist der Kommissionspräsident. Und bei der letzten Wahl waren die Spitzenkandidaten von der Europäischen Partei, von der Junkart, von der S&D, von Schultz, und dann von der Greens, also die EVP hat die Wahl gewonnen. Wir akzeptieren jetzt, als Kandidat, und die EVP-Partei sagt, wir akzeptieren jetzt, wir akzeptieren jetzt, und die EVP-Partei sagt, wir akzeptieren jetzt, wir akzeptieren jetzt, wir akzeptieren jetzt, war die strengere Populität von den FDP. Aber jetzt werden wir etwas ruhocket购100 machen. Und da, oder als Tatsache der Rogrell, in Deutschland. Jetzt habt ihr das Pech das Wahlrecht eines meiner Lieblingsthemen ist. Ja, meine Freunde hassen mich. Ja, ihr wisst, Elective Law ist eines meiner Lieblingssthemen. So, jetzt kann ich ein bisschen mit die Stärkklause füllen. Also, jetzt kann ich ein bisschen über die Blocking-Klaus sprechen. Also, bis 2008, da gab es noch 5 % Blocking-Klaus, wie für den Bundestag. Und dann haben Leute dagegen geklagt. Und dann haben Pimpel geworfen gegen das. Für uns in Deutschland ist es normal. Niemand fragt das. Auch wenn es nicht sehr demokratisch ist, dass ich gegen das ist. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat sich das damals angugelt. Aber die deutschen Förder sind um die Arbeitsfähigkeit ins Parlamentssicher zu stellen. Also, wenn es okay ist, dass die Arbeitsfähigkeit nicht gefährdet ist, dann braucht man die auch nicht. Dann haben sie sich anguckt, wie sie Oberparlament arbeiten, damit man sagt, Mensch. To make sure that governments can be formed. But like in the European Parliament, you don't really have to form a government. So like, you don't really need it there. So, there are already more than 160 parties in this. And it works together with the groups. And maybe there is no split effect because of this. So, maybe we don't need it for the European elections. And suddenly it was gone. And that was bad mood with all of the German parties. Maybe we can introduce a new one, maybe a three percent or something. But I mean, yeah, the logic of the court doesn't really care whether it's three percent or five percent. Well, whatever. And the reaction of the German lawmaker was that they introduced a three percent barrier. And, well, once again, the constitutional court said no. And that made the mood of the parties even worse. And this is one of my favorite statements from politicians in Germany. So, the third point is that we have the least amount of members ever. But this is only to a limited degree our fault. Because you have to look at it, that the decision makers in the constitutional court moved away this barrier of three percent. This is the reason why there's NPD, ÖDP and a bunch of other funny parties in the European Parliament. This was a very bad decision of the constitutional court of the highest court in Germany. And we have to deal with that, does the lawmaker, every day now. I still have the hope that, after all, the judges will understand how hard it is now to come up with actual political solutions. So you have to think about it, the European Parliament must be dead now, right? Can't work anymore. So, at least, Herr Bertrand, you see him, he has been talking both with you and before you with the governor of NLV. But anyways, ja, well, it's not our fault. If your break now, it's the fault of the constitutional court. And I always thought that the citizens decide who gets into the parliament. No, no, no, no, not for the CDU. So, anyways, the three percent clause gone. So, well, we'll assume that they would accept it. And, but no, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the former Foreign Minister of Germany, said that he wants to have such a clause now in the European level. Hat er gesagt, na gut. So, well, he said, OK, what can we do now? And he thought, maybe we can get this on a European level. And after all in November 2015, one of the very little things that the European Parliament can do, and it's all, it made a proposal for a new electoral reform. And the council, that can make a counterproposal to that. It doesn't have to do anything to do with the proposal about the European Parliament. And the European Parliament had a pretty useful proposal for some elective law, for example, voting with 16 and transnational lists and other important things. Also, haben Sie gedacht, man kommt auf ein paar Sachen zu vermaken? Oder zum Beispiel eine frische 12-Woche ist da, oder vielleicht, dass man einigen Ländern, wenn die Zeit in der Wahl aufgestellt hat, in die Liste des Kandidats 12-Wochs hat, und nicht 2-Wochs hat, wie das in some countries. And then it went to the council, and it has to be decided by the council unanimously. Also, Entschuldigung, man hat das Ganze im Sprachlausel, das hat 35% von der Zeit in den Vorschlag. Und damals, nachdem es zum Parlament durchgingen, da kamen wir postbekommen. So, after that passed in the parliament, we got a letter, a document from the foreign office of Germany. And let's look at how the foreign office, but they wrote to that. Well, they wrote, the most important thing for us is that the European Parliament has moved. So, Germany is supporting a new clause at 3%. So, what happened next is that the council took a long time, we thought it was dead, the long nothing is happening. And we are a party that is growing and growing. But one of the fears that we share, for example with the social democrats, is that we might not make it over the threshold, if there were one. Und ... Well, when the proposal of the council came back, maybe we thought, well, maybe we get something back. Maybe there will be a clause again at 3%. In return we get transnational lists and voting with 16 and so on and so forth. The scientific service of the German parliament, the constitutional service there said, well, it would be okay if everything in this law gets dropped except for the clause at 3%. So, what happened to the proposal of the European Parliament, nothing happens, no E-voting, no voting with 16, no nothing except for this clause, this blocking clause at 3%. So everything that's good went away, everything that's bad is still there. And of course the parliament agreed. Social democrats, for example, who were in charge of that proposal said, well, well, it's kind of good, let's agree with that. And the thing is that every national parliament now has to agree to that. We thought, oh, they're never going to make it until the next ... Next election, so it doesn't matter for us. And then it came up in Germany. And the scientific service of the German parliament came back and told them, well, we don't only need a normal majority, but rather a two-third majority in both chambers of the German parliament. And they figured out, well, we don't even have a majority like that. Christian democrats, social democrats, we're missing six seats. And they thought, well, the Greens might help us there. And the Greens were wrong. We're not going to do that on their party congress. They decided that they're not going to do it. They think it is undemokratisch at least to rush it like that. Even the people who are in favor of that say, well, no, we're not going to do it this quickly. And the end of this whole crime story is that ... ... a question has been answered by the responsible minister, Andrea Nahles. And her answer was, no, we're not going to do this. We're not going to introduce this law before, but next year, people will exist in 2019. So, you know, there's a right to informational freedom. And you can ask for all sorts of things that the government is working on, emails and letters and so on and so forth. And there are some quirks with that. You might not be able to request all of the content of all of these documents, but you might have the right to ask for just a list of which documents exist. And out of this information, there might be some form of information that this has been dealt with by different politicians. So, that's how it works with democracy. This is the president of the European Parliament, Tayani. And this is my boss, Martin Sonnebarn. And Tayani. He's not well-known in Germany, like the former president of Martin Schultz. But he was the former press officer of Filiu Berlusconi. And, you know, we only have the best here in Brussels. So, I want to talk a little bit about the differences between the European Parliament and the German Parliament. Und zwar, weil die meisten Leute, die meisten Menschen, sie wissen etwas, sie wissen das German Parliament viel, viel besser. Sie wissen dieses Bild, aber sie wissen nicht das Bild. In Deutschland, sie wissen es, in Strasbourg, sie wissen es nicht. Was man da hinten sieht, ist ein bunch of Cabins für die live-translation, live-interpretation, an All-Amts-Kommission. Just a lot more. And we translate everything into all of the official languages of the European Union, in 23 languages. This has the added benefit that it doesn't happen that we like, in the German Parliament sometimes meetings go until 4 a.m. in the morning. But here that doesn't happen because they translate, und wenn sie nach Hause gehen, sind sie alle da. So, eine der größten Unterschiede hier ist, dass ihr hier seht, dass es kleine Computer sind. Und hier im deutschen Parlament, nein, nichts. Hier in der europäischen Parlament haben wir das elektronische System, das ist von Juliareda, da ihr seht, dass das letzte Votel in der europäischen Parlament und das letzte, was wir da haben. Und ich denke, warum haben wir das nicht im deutschen Parlament? Und dann kommt es nicht. Das ist ein Bundesland, das ist besonderlich. Wenn es nicht gibt, kommt nichts. Aber in der... Für example, wir haben... Es gibt einige Erinnerungen zum Grundgesetz, für zum Beispiel, für die selten Nachwunsch in der deutschen Parlament. Wir haben auch einen Votel, der irgendwie frei war und niemand wusste, wie der Result zu sein. Aber in der europäischen Parlament, das ist ein Teil des Lebens. Wir haben ein System der flexiblen meisten in der europäischen Parlament. Viele der größeren Gruppen arbeiten zusammen, irgendwie wie die Grand Coalition in Deutschland. Aber in vielen Fragen, es gibt verschiedene Bedingungen, die sich um eine Abstimmung in einer Budgetfrage haben. Für Beispiel, die Budget-Isschuhe, das ist der... asked, für... All of the members of the European Parliament have fixed amount of money they can spend on their local offices. And they don't have to really do any record keeping for how they spend this money. And the leftists made this proposal. Well, why don't we do some guidelines that there has to be some records how this money is being spent. And suddenly there was a majority, also for example the conservatives with the British Conservatives, they agreed as well. So the thing is in the European Parliament conservatives are conservatives. The German conservatives are very different from the British, for example. The Germans, they want to have some trust put in them and like they don't want everything being checked. But the British Tories, they are very strictly in favor of transparency and that's why they might as well work together with the leftists in some cases like this one. Can you remember Heiko Maas? Now he's Foreign Minister in Germany and back in the days he was very strictly against data retention. And suddenly then he turned into the Minister of Justice of Germany and then he was strongly in favor of data retention. There are some things that make it more the case that in the European Parliament there are democratic decisions. Minority governments coalitions. This might relate to the fact that the SPD might go on a science trip to circumcise pigs. But now we have coalitions. Also, each coalition has to vote in unison. For instance, a few years ago, there was a case, now we go back to Ex-Post. Just have a look at it. It's similar to the German parliament. It's not proportional. The majorities are not represented proportionally, but we have the left, we have the S&D, we have the Greens. Similar to the German Greens, there's, for instance, the Liberale bei der letzten Europawahl. We have the Liberals. Last elections, everything was in order. So the European People's Party mit der deutschen CDU CSU. Similar to the German CDU CSU. But nobody knows the CDU. Es ist in der gleichen Partie wie die Partie der CDU CSU. Das ist why he's always a visitor. Wir haben rechts davon die ECR. Das ist eine Koalition. Mit den Britischen Touristen, sie sind wie die EPP, sie sind nicht sehr freundlich. Es ist ein bisschen verrückt. Es ist die größte Delegation in der EU-CIP-Unterhaltung. Die EU-CIP-Unterhaltung ist die Gruppe der EU-CIP-Unterhaltung. Sie sind sehr erfolgreich. Sie sind unabhängig. Sie sind unabhängig. Sie sind unabhängig. Sie sind unabhängig. Sie haben ein bisschen eingegraben. Darfologically haben wir noch eine Rechtsradikale. Wir haben auch eine Rechtsradikale. Eine Rechtsradikale. Sie haben eine Rechtsradikale. Ich Cafe-nen die aus dem Ostpol, die Marien Lepen, Die Marien Lepen, die Französischen National. Die Partei von der Freiheit Gerd Wilders. einer Fraktion, die momentan in der aktuellen Wahl ein relativ großes Wachstum vorhergesagt wird. Aber es wird ja offenbar auch ein bisschen salonfähiger, was man hier nicht vergessen darf. Wir können ja unproblematisch in Österreich in der Regierungskollektion Es könnte die Regierung machen, in der Regierungskollektion in Österreich. Es sieht so aus, als ob es eine große Gruppe war, aber das sind die Menschen, die keine Handel haben. Das sind die Menschen, die niemand will. Es könnte ein paar Griechenländer, zwei griechische Gugnissen, die nicht in der Regierungskollektion nehmen dürfen, die nicht in der Regierungskollektion sind, die nicht in der Regierungskollektion nehmen dürfen. Es gibt aber auch die WHO, die nicht in der Regierungskollektion haben. Wir haben Udo Vogt von den NPD und uns. Das hat zur Folge, also ich kann das so sagen, wenn ich jetzt in Russland eine Leute kennenlände, die nicht aus Deutschland kommen, dann bin ich aus Germany und ich bin von der Faktion, Und ich sage nicht in der Gruppe, sondern ich sage... Nein. Ich wollte das Ganze noch mal komplett... Ich wollte die Gruppe mal zeigen. Wir haben gar nicht viele gerade, es sind 23%, es ist nur 23%. Es sieht etwas größer als es eigentlich ist. Das EU-Legislation-Prozedur. Gehen wir die mal ganz kurz durch. Das sind zwei Sachen, die ihr im Zusammenhang mit der EU beschreiben soll. Das sind Verordnungen und Richtlinien. Wir haben bestimmt eine eure Lieblingsverordnung, mit denen ihr kürzlich Verbindungen wart. Das Verordnung macht aus, dass sie über nationalem Recht stehen und unmittelbar gelten und verbindlich sind. Die Gruppe ist die Regulierung, die sofort in die Lage ist, wenn sie gelten. Aber die Regulierung war so eine Regulierung. Die andere Sache ist die Direktive, die die meisten Gesetze sind. Die Nationalparlamenten müssen dann auch national sein. So lange die Nationalparlamenten nicht übernehmen, ist es nicht legaler Binding. Die Kommission kommt mit dem Proposal ab. Dann geht es um die Kommission und das Parlament. Dann kommen sie zusammen. Wenn die beiden die gleiche Version betreffen, dann ist es in der ersten Redezeit. Wenn das nicht passiert, dann geht es um die Diskussion. Dann geht es um die zweite und so weiter. Aber praktisch ist das nicht wirklich passiert. Es gibt dieses Kostümsystem, das ist ein System, das ist ein informer Trialog. Wir haben den Rest gekocht. Wenn das Kommission kommt, dann kommt es um das Parlament. Dann kommt es um die Dinge, die die Proposal werden wollen. Dann geht es um die Kommission. Dann kommt es um das Informal Trialog. Dann diskutieren sie, was sie wollen, dann geht es um die erste Redezeit. Das hat some benefits, for example, it's fast. It is discussed. It's moderated by the commission. One of the downsides is that it isn't open to the public. You know when it happens, but you don't know what is happening behind those doors. There is no protocol or anything. Some things are being published nowadays because some people have sued ravenously against this institution. And there is one thing called four-column documents. So for example, this is from your radar about the copyright reform. This is our favorite article 13 about upload filters. And here in the first column, this is what the proposal of the commission looks like. Then in the second what the parliament wants to have. The third one what the council wants to have. And the fourth one is what they are currently compromising about. And someone has sued the institutions to make this public. And the council was strongly against this. But finally now it is the case that when you ask for these documents to be published, they have to hand it out. And that is a very important victory for information and freedom. So I want to use an example, for example copyright. Julia Reda, she was in charge of the European Parliament report. So we don't have the possibility to make a proposal, but we can make a report to tell the commission, well, this is what we would like you to propose. And then the commission comes around with a proposal and then it moved into the committee after this, talking about the specific issue in the European Parliament. So in this case it is the Justice Affairs und also die European Union. And there is a bunch of important people there. There is the rapporteur and then there is the shadow rapporteur. Sometimes this is mentioned in debates or in the public. So if you want to look this up, you can go to the workshop of the European Parliament and here you can see who are those people. The rapporteur is Axel Foss from the European People's Party and then you see from all of the other groups who is responsible for this file. And the rapporteur tries to come up with some form of text version that comes up with a majority in negotiations with the shadow rapporteurs. All of these things are transparent in the European Parliament so you can look that up on the website. You can see on the page with all sorts of things. You can see all of the reports from committees. You can see all of the changes being proposed. And then finally it comes to a vote in the committee. And with the majority in this committee the committee can already decide that informally we start discussing this in the trailogue together with the council. So, for example, in this case Art. 13, Art. 11, Upload filters and until you are ready for press publish, both of these things are in this proposal and the committee decided to start negotiations with the council about this. And then this whole thing moves to the vote in the parliamentary with all of the 751 members and we try to figure out a majority to stop these negotiations and we unfortunately didn't succeed. And here you can see all of the German members of the European Parliament how they voted so the CDU, all of them are in favour of course of Upload filters and so on and so forth. With the social democrats here it's a different picture. So, in this case we have a majority in favour of this as well. But, for example, one of the people who are strongly against Upload filters is, for example, Timo Werken, maybe some of you know him. He found a couple of votes with the social democrats who are against this. With the greens it was 50-50. So, maybe it's a matter of generation because all of the older people within the greens have voted in favour of this and all of the younger people have voted against. So, so, so, so, so, in Germany would be unthinkable for the social democrats to start finding a couple of people to vote against things, but here this is normal. So, unfortunately, this has passed. Some of you might remember this picture. This is Axel Foster, rapporteur. He's very happy. He's very happy. Yeah, that's a really bad picture. But, yeah, here he got demanded to start negotiations with the Council in the trailer. And this is what's currently going on. So, Julia Reda, she's the shadow rapporteur for the Green Group, and all of these discussions and publishes some files. So, the thing is, once the trailer is over, the whole file comes back into the European Parliament because the planaries still have to accept this. And so, there, it will be important to find a majority against this. There were multiple millions of signatures in the European Parliament. So, in this case, the Internet that we know, and this is being in danger by upload filters. The upload filters are being put in place would mean that all of the content that is being uploaded onto platforms has to be scanned beforehand in this trailer. And I would really, really hope that the net community would find a way to rally a lot of people against this, because this is a really, really tough fight, and it's also a dirty fight. Der Kampffatz schmutzlich geführt, von allen Seiten, aber wir haben es da wirklich mit den Befürwortern. Wir sind mit der Tagentfernen-Fraktion wirklich far removed from the fact. Es gibt Leute, die sagen, dass es nicht mehr upload filters gibt, und das ist einfach nicht die Basis für die Diskussion, weil das nicht wahr ist. So, was ich mich interessieren möchte, ist, was ich mich interessieren möchte, was ich mich interessieren möchte, was ich mich interessieren möchte, was ich mich interessieren möchte, was ich mich interessieren möchte, was ich mich interessieren möchte, aber das ist wirklich ... Ich habe noch nicht viele, da würde ich noch mehr, weil ich an so vielen Dingen für die Ich will auch für die election, also für die demokratische Prozesse, was ich machen möchte. Ich möchte von der Advertisement für die demokratischen Werte der Europäischen Parlamente machen. Es ist wirklich leicht, für die smallen Parties in der Europäischen Parlamente zu teilzulegen. Es gibt auch Diskussionen, weil es nicht so eine Angst vorhanden ist. Es gibt auch Diskussionen. Ich hoffe, dass das auch in Deutschland passiert. Wir haben ein Regierung, wo ein kleiner Partner in diesem Regierung die Dinge tun, die politisch bekannt werden wollen. Und das nicht einfach zu kompromissieren. Was ich wirklich mag über die demokratische Struktur in der Europäischen Parlamente, ist, dass es eine Negation zwischen den Parlamenten und den Council gibt. Es ist wirklich schwer, für die Council zu definieren, dass die majority 65 % des Parlamentes für das große Gewicht der Bürgerkammer immer ein extrem kaltes Gewicht des electiven Chambers der Europäischen Parlamente betrachtet, das muss im Endeffekt eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Ich will oftmals, dass sich etwas blockiert, aber ich möchte nicht, dass es noch so ist, dass es in der Europäischen Parlamente keinen starken Bewegung gibt. Aber ja, das ist eine rechthrliegende gigantische Struktur. Vielleicht ein kleiner Schritt. Das wird ein kleiner Ausstrahl am richtigen Kreuz. Ein kleiner Schritt. Vielleicht ein kleiner Schritt. Vielleicht ein kleiner Schritt. Vielleicht ein kleiner Schritt.