AOC does the same thing . Like every cable you can ever plug into it . <| sep |> Did you even watch the video ? With academic references and research or just come here to bring froward your own theory on the matter ? <| sep |> well basically it is an oligarchy concealed as a democracy , run by a few individuals merkel , hollande , . who run the agenda , not saying they decide everything just that they make the agenda . How is that different from the organization of most member countries , where some individuals party leaders , prime ministers , presidents etc . exert a disproportionate influence ? Also i would expect from a democracy that every vote counts equally but in the EU it does not . That ' s correct , it actually gives advantages to smaller countries . countries that are not Merkel or Hollande you contradict yourself . Why would they give themselves a disadvantage in votes if they run the thing ? Well i think it failed on the Greece debacleThe EU didn ' t decided about that . It was a decision by the joint governments of the Eurozone . Part of the failure the inability of the ECB to be the lender of last resort has been fixed . The other part , the neoliberal ideology , is also present in the national governments so that ' s hardly caused by the EU . the fact that merkel on her own decided that all refugees are welcome and now we all face the consequencesMerkel ' s invitation caused a 2 % increase in asylum requests in Germany in the following six months . That ' s all . The main driver of the migration stream is the Syrian civil war . Otherwise they ' d prefer to stay home . it has gotten so far that one of its major participants left . How does that prove anything about which side is right ? might have been a bit over the top , but i think the EU is just a bad institution . Good intentions no doubt but badly executed , to nationalistic to work , no proper transnational communication system , . So you aim to counter the excess of nationalism with more nationalism ? That seems counterproductive . no proper transnational communication system , . Explain . Last time I checked there was telephone coverage in the entire EU .