From @VoltEuropa's policies: "In the short term, and in order to bring coherence into the Council’s work, Volt supports abolishing the Council’s system of topic-based configurations and replacing them with a single representative for each State."... #VoteVolt#EP2019
..."As is the case in Parliament, the Council’s work will be split between initial discussions in preparatory committees composed of a small group of representatives, and plenary sessions for discussions, amendments, and vote."... #VoteVolt#EP2019
..."In the long term, Volt supports further democratisation of the Council by organising the direct election of its members by the people. MS would each have two representatives on the Council, to balance political representation with a limited size."... #VoteVolt#EP2019
..."This would also counterbalance population-based apportionment in the European Parliament and strengthen the representation of smaller Member States. Volt also supports terminating the current practice of a rotating presidency."... #VoteVolt#EP2019
..."Despite a welcome alternance in leadership, this system prevents any long-term work and keeps important policy issues from being followed through. Volt proposes the direct election of a President of the Council by Council members." #VoteVolt#EP2019
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The @APPF_EU unveiled the latest official MEP membership figures for #europeanparties, which will be used to calculate their entitlements to EU public funding. Here is what's what 👇
❌ Worthy of note: sharp nose-dive for virtually all pro-EU forces: @EPP, @PES_PSE, @ALDEParty, @europeangreens, @PDE_EDP, and EFA (even @europeanleft).
Only net winner: the @LeftAlliance_EU, but mostly because it starts from zero.
❌ Conversely, the winners (except ELA) are all on the hard/far-right: @PatriotsEU, @ECRparty, and ESN.
Today, @POLITICOEurope's Playbook reports on two EU political alliances missing out on EU funds "because the paperwork is too complicated". A great opportunity to discuss the funding of #europeanparties! 🥳🇪🇺
A quick 🧵... 1/23
@euleftalliance @APPF_EU @EDC_eudemocracy
First of all, what are we talking about? This is about a special stream of European public funding set aside for #europeanparties and distributed every year. Out of that envelope, 10% is distributed equally to all parties and 90% proportionally to their number of MEPs. 2/23
But, actually, this turns out to be more about registration than funding. In the meantime, if you want to really understand the funding of European parties, hear this way 👇 3/23 epfo.eu/understanding-…
Over the past several years, @EDC_eudemocracy has made many, many requests to the European Parliament to access decisions by its Bureau on the funding of #europeanparties. These included decisions for funding (for the coming year) and final accounts (which wrap up the process).
Invariably, these documents were provided with heavy redactions over the parts covering the EP's reasoning for its decisions: we could see the outcome (amounts), but not how decisions were made. Until yesterday, the latest full document related to funding for 2015 -- 8 years ago.
To be clear, the point of this thread is *not* to argue that TNLs will make our common election less European, simply that they will not remedy the election's core deficiency (that national parties are in control) and that, therefore, they are not the right way forward. 3/25