Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames

• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Uh, they are not. The European Commission is one of two legislative bodies. The European Parliament is where SKG has a much broader support.

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  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wanted to say exactly that. The EU Commission is seemingly actively pushing against everything common sense EU citizens are for, while the EU parliament is busy rejecting the BS coming from the Commission.

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  • Jiral@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think you confused something here. While I agree that it is nonsense to claim that the Commission “is the EU”, it is not really a legislative body. While it is true that the Commission “initiates” legislation, it is an executive institution and such work is more in line with national governments drafting new legislation (even if there commonly Parliaments than rubber stamp a legislative initiative based on that). The two legislative institutions of the EU are the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (comprised of ministers from each national government), the amend, veto or agree on legislation together, with committee work etc, as one would expect from legislatives.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I probably didn’t translate that properly. I meant “one of the two bodies involved in lawmaking”.

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      • Jiral@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In that case, if you choose to include the Commission, there would be three bodies. There is a reason the “trilogue” is called that way. The third body is the Council of the European Union which has basically equal standing to the European Parliament but represents the member states, while the EP represents the voters directly. Both can bring in amendments and veto or agree on a piece of legislation (while the Commission can’t, its influence is with initiation and the initial draft).

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