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Jankisa
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Croatia973 Posts
13 hours ago
#28301
Maybe an interesting solution would be to have EU "President" elections, for Ursula's spot but expand the powers a bit and have it be an actual democratic election.

Each country puts forward a candidate (perhaps choosen during the EU parliament elections) they campaign for a month or two and then the whole of EU votes for president, perhaps with ranked choice voting and maybe it favors people who bow out in order to join the cabinet of their preferred cabinet.

This person should then on top of Ursula's powers receive the ability to brake the veto (so we can curbstomp the ability of Hungary and whoever elects a Putin stooge next to block the agenda for the whole EU) and perhaps they can have, as their first order of business the establishment of EU army to legitimize the position a bit more.

We have a huge leadership problem and perhaps if we gave the actual people of EU the ability to choose someone from a wide variety of candidates who have to campaign for everyone not just their national interests we might even ignite a passion for European politics in the population.
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Legan
Profile Joined June 2017
Finland518 Posts
12 hours ago
#28302
I'm hesitant to create a new powerful position, given how those roles are working in other places. Creating a new position just to get Le Pen elected for it would cause a massive amount of damage. Ranked-choice voting would be a must, but I'm still sceptical it would prevent the worst outcomes or be agreed on. Moving power away from locals will always be unpopular. Hard to see how smaller countries would ever win the position, even with support from different political and regional blocs. Also, limiting the position to foreign policy, or so, would make it much weaker, though maybe more agreeable. Maybe if more than one were elected into the small council, it would help to avoid my fears, but suddenly everyone will want a guaranteed spot.
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Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
11953 Posts
12 hours ago
#28303
Maybe something like every 10 million people per country (rounded up) being a vote could make it less sensitive to the highly populated nations. Where small ones get a full vote even without hitting 10 million. Though not certain something like that is required.
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain18142 Posts
11 hours ago
#28304
On December 08 2025 02:04 Yurie wrote:
Maybe something like every 10 million people per country (rounded up) being a vote could make it less sensitive to the highly populated nations. Where small ones get a full vote even without hitting 10 million. Though not certain something like that is required.

That sounds like a weird compromise. Why not just have 1 person, 1 vote? Why should Luxemburg get the same amount of voting power as the Czech Republic? 1 person, 1 vote is just so much more sensible.

That said, I think any reform of the EU president's role would also have to come with an overall reform of EU decision making. I'm not sure what would be a good idea.
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands21980 Posts
11 hours ago
#28305
Its a case of wishing for something to be gone, only to realise the void left behind afterwards.

The EU had a leader in Merkel, and she was hated for it. It was 'Germany bullying the rest of the EU' ect.
And then we got the useless sack of potato's Scholz and Macron who was doing his best 1938 Chamberlain impersonation.

You talk about holding elections for an EU leader but the reality on the ground is that Europe tends to go where its major countries (France and Germany now that the UK is out) go. You can have an EU leader from Portugal but if France and Germany say 'we don't think so' then nothing of substance is going to happen.

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Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
11953 Posts
6 hours ago
#28306
On December 08 2025 02:26 Acrofales wrote:
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On December 08 2025 02:04 Yurie wrote:
Maybe something like every 10 million people per country (rounded up) being a vote could make it less sensitive to the highly populated nations. Where small ones get a full vote even without hitting 10 million. Though not certain something like that is required.

That sounds like a weird compromise. Why not just have 1 person, 1 vote? Why should Luxemburg get the same amount of voting power as the Czech Republic? 1 person, 1 vote is just so much more sensible.

That said, I think any reform of the EU president's role would also have to come with an overall reform of EU decision making. I'm not sure what would be a good idea.


Was mostly targeting this complaint.

Hard to see how smaller countries would ever win the position, even with support from different political and regional blocs.

By making major population powers have more power in European Parliament and less proportional power in the other power seat. Though they don't really get over represented much in the current setup.
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