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Thread #160163   Message #3799807
Posted By: Teribus
11-Jul-16 - 12:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Whither Scotland, Northern Ireland?
Subject: RE: BS: Whither Scotland, Northern Ireland?
"The European Commission is there to enact the wishes of the EU parliament" - Best laugh I've had so far this month - where on earth did you get that from?

The EU Commissioners are nominated and put forward by their own Governments they most certainly are not selected by any Council (The members of the Council of the European Union are all national ministers from each member state the composition of the Council has ten different configurations depending upon what is being discussed.).

The European Parliament gets final choice of a list of candidates for EU Commission President but has no choice in any appointment of any individual EU Commissioner, they cannot object to any individual Commissioner, they get to rubber stamp the composition of the Commission not who sits on it. It is the Commission acting in what THEY and the Council of the European Union see as being the best interests of the EU who make the rules that govern the running of the EU. While the EU Parliament posses limited legislative power it does not have the power of legislative initiative (It cannot introduce laws or rules - only the Commission can do that)

I'd love to have an example of when the EU Commission ever enacted something that could even be remotely described as being the wishes of the EU Parliament - nice thought though.