https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46509288
"Prime Minister Theresa May has called off Tuesday's crucial vote on her Brexit deal so she can go back to Brussels and ask for changes to it.
"As it stands the deal 'would be rejected by a significant margin' if MPs voted on it, she admitted."
The biggest stumbling block appears to be the issue between Ireland and Northern Ireland. In particular, what the borders will look like in terms of what people and goods will need to do or not do in order to cross it.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday December 12 2018, @07:37PM (3 children)
Centralization of power being bad is not something I'm willing to accept as axiomatic. Sometimes, a distributed power structure makes a better decision than a centralized power structure would. Sometimes it's the other way around.
For example, the EU definitely has treated Greece very badly during the latest economic crisis. On the other hand, the latest economic crisis didn't turn into a major war like several pre-EU economic crises have. It's not like there aren't any tradeoffs involved here.
As for who controls the EU, the appointed representatives are a bit like how the US senate was originally created to represent the state government's interests. If you want to change what your nation is doing on the European Council, the way to go about that is changing your national government.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @09:24PM
I marvel at how people can just come up with fake reasons for decentralization and argue against them.
It has nothing to do with whether a "better decision" is made, it has to do with how bad things get when the "wrong" person is making decisions. I mentioned before on here that there is some sort of connection between so-called "liberal" political ideas and making strawman arguments. It is really deserving of study.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @10:06PM (1 child)
UK trade deficit [hhttps] with the EU is £67 billion (£28 billion surplus in services less £95 billion in goods). UK trade surplus with non-EU countries is £41 billion. The UK accounts for 15% of EU GDP. [europa.eu] The EU not doing a good faith, mutually beneficial deal is a stupid idea.
Price controls are usually bad [iea.org.uk] if not always EU butter mountain level bad.
Greece should never have been admitted to the Eurozone. Europe is simply a sub-optimal currency area. [city.ac.uk] I think you already know this.
Not yet. [businessinsider.com] Western governments allowed companies to off-shore global growth. When government borrowing was based on growth projections, printing money and importing "human capital" simply suspends the inevitable.
(Score: 2) by legont on Thursday December 13 2018, @03:51AM
but
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8536862.stm [bbc.co.uk]
That's probably why Greece was admitted; and it was fun for awhile.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.