Comment by Idesmi
12 days ago
I sadly agree with what you wrote, but on this point
> The EU Parliament is like that: the death of ambition, full of apathetic losers who drift into politics without any real idea of why they're there
I have to disagree. There are many (or, "at least a few I know personally"? [1]) people who sit in the Parliament with a real intention of making good. Their power is simply null, though.
1. David Sassoli (deceased, ex president), Guy Verhofstadt (Renew), Patrick Breyer (Pirates), to name a few I follow.
I only know the name Verhofstadt but he's a hard-core federalist, no? Sure, people who define good as the EU taking everything over can genuinely view their "work" as doing good, but it's the sort of thing I meant by cheerleading. The Commission needs no encouragement and would be doing exactly the same things regardless of whether Verhofstadt existed or not.