Parodper

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Things must be hard if the EU can't keep a single Mastodon server up.

[–] Parodper@foros.fediverso.gal 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What's the matter with this instance? I see that the main page doesn't load.

[–] Parodper@foros.fediverso.gal 5 points 9 months ago

I'm curious, what are the other electoral systems you're talking about?

[–] Parodper@foros.fediverso.gal 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly, just use Debian. It can run under 200MB of RAM (default install), so it beats all distros on the list except for TinyCore and SliTaz, and it actually has packages.

[–] Parodper@foros.fediverso.gal 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The only big change I can see will be Parliament proposing the Commission President, instead of the European Council. Apart from that, experience shows that motions of no confidence are rare, so I don't think this will make the Commission less independent.

would perhaps not have been feasible to realize like they have been, if the European Commission couldn’t have the best commissioners for the jobs.

Those acts are approved by Parliament, which is where the Commission will be responsible to.

 

Full proposal

From that link:

  • a more bicameral system and fewer deadlocks in the Council, through more decisions by qualified majority voting and the ordinary legislative procedure;
  • a fully-fledged right of legislative initiative, and a co-legislator role for Parliament for the long-term budget;
  • an overhaul of the rules for the Commission’s composition (rebranded as the “European Executive”), including the election of its President (with the nomination to be done by Parliament and the approval by the European Council - a reversal of the current process), limiting the number of Commissioners to 15 (rotating between the member states), enabling the Commission President to choose their College based on political preferences with geographic and demographic balance in mind, and a mechanism to censure individual Commissioners;
  • significantly greater transparency in the Council by publishing EU member state positions on legislative issues;
  • more say for citizens through an obligation for the EU to create appropriate participatory mechanisms and by giving European political parties a stronger role.

Some changes missing from that link that I found interesting:

  • Switch from «High Representative» to «Union Secretary» and «President of the European Council» to «President of the European Union».

I very much prefer the old names, and I don't like the downgrade from High Representative to Secretary.

  • Parliament now chooses by itself how to divide its seats between member states.

Not really in favor of this, this should be the European Council's job.

  • More power to the CJEU for resolving inter-institutional disputes, and involving it in the process for suspension of EU membership.
  • Gives more agency to the European Defence Agency and gives the CSDP its own budget. It also copies NATO's article 5 wording for mutual defense.
  • Amending the treaties needs the approval of 4/5 of member states.

That would currently mean 22 out of 27, so no more French-Dutch veto.

  • Adding the risk to cross planetary boundaries when considering environmental policy (?)
  • Adds a more concrete language, from «may» and «suggest» to «shall» and «enforce».
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Parodper@foros.fediverso.gal to c/europe@feddit.de
[–] Parodper@foros.fediverso.gal 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I believe OP has made some mistakes when pasting the text


[Diagram]
Oracle VM: Linux
External IP: 192.0.2.1
Internal IP: 172.16.0.2
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 | GRE Tunnel
 v
Home Server: Linux
Internal IP: 172.16.0.2
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 |
 v
Firewall: FreeBSD
Internal IP: 172.16.0.1
External IP: 192.0.2.2

[Text]
Home Linux Server GRE config:
$ sudo ip tunnel add gre0 mode gre remote 172.16.0.2 local 192.0.2.1 ttl 255
$ sudo ip link set gre0 up
$ sudo ip addr add 10.100.10.1/24 dev gre0


Home Linux Server GRE config:
$ sudo ip tunnel add gre0 mode gre remote 192.0.2.2 local 192.0.2.1 ttl 255
$ sudo ip link set gre0 up
$ sudo ip addr add 10.100.10.1/24 dev gre0

Firewall:
nat on igb1 inet from ! (igb1) to any -> (igb1:0)
nat on igb0 inet proto gre from 172.16.0.2 to any -> (igb1:0)
rdr pass on igb1 inet proto gre from 141.148.84.178 to (igb1) -> 172.16.0.2

I just said it’s common, to which you agree in your last sentence.

It's common in Switzerland. You said it was common in all of Europe.

[–] Parodper@foros.fediverso.gal 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Education and access to communications are fundamental rights, unlike access to cash. You can live a perfectly normal life without ever touching a single coin.

Of course you can write that in the constitution, but that's just a populist measure of which the Swiss constitution is full of.

[–] Parodper@foros.fediverso.gal 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Have you got any examples? I checked the Spanish and Portuguese ones (because I can read the original text) and the Swiss one (which seems the most likely to do that sort of thing) and they don't mention something like that.

I support copying r/europe's rules, maybe removing some disallowed submitions, like 1b, 1c, 4, 8b for Fediverse posts, 8c, 9 and 14 for european-related petitions. I also believe that the submission guidelines aren't needed with the traffic level of this community.

As for the process for new moderators, here's a post from r/europe from when they did it. Also, I volunteer to be moderator.

[–] Parodper@foros.fediverso.gal 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

While I do agree that cash is very handy, that sort of thing doesn't belong in a constitution.

[–] Parodper@foros.fediverso.gal 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by «support»? In my Debian install I created an encrypted partition + LVM and I can hibernate without issue. I believe Ubuntu has an install option for encryption, so I think it should also work.

Very nice, although I guess most communities in an instance are moderated by users from that same instance.

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