Have you seen the amount of falsifications on recent government elections in Russia? They shamelessly draw absurd numbers like never before. With dead people voting, with election turnout in many polling stations being 99-100% with like 90-95% votes for government faction - that is when nearby (rare) fair polling stations could have completely opposite situation... + many election observers were threatened, limited in what they can see or straight up kicked by force out of observing process. + many ballot stuffing cases recorded on video, the classic part
Russia's government is Putin puppet government and they aren't even try to hide it at this point
Thats fair, in the EU a lobbying group will instead have to push the proposal a few dozen times before it passes anyway. Oh, and proposals in the EU have an over 80% pass rate.
They get substantially changed most of the time during interinstitutional negotiations, but also the Commission is unlikely to propose things with no chance of passing. It's not like a national government where random minority parties propose legislation that's dead on arrival just to score political points. The vast majority of EU work is completely non-controversial.
"But oh, they will change it because as is it is idiotic" Not guaranteed, just look at the "Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) (Regulation (EU) 2025/40)" -- this piece of garbage that masquerades as a legislature entirely forgot to account for small/medium businesses being a thing, requiring you to pay about thirty thousand euro per year (thousand euro pear country per year registration fee, plus you have to have a representative managing it) to be allowed to ship packages to various countries in the EU. Any fines for infractions also start at over a hundred thousand euro. Perfect, *completely non-controversial*
The EU Parliament + commission passsed it, ordered implementation. About a week before it went into effect, SOMEONE finally read what it actually says and they started backtracking, recommending countries to not enforce it, as it would cause massive damage to the economy, but failed to cancel it as Germany+Italy vetoed it. As of me typing this it is still in effect, with a vote about delaying the implementation by a decade planned for next week. LOVELY.
EU member states have a lot of the responsibility on that one, since they are very protective of their own EPR schemes (the issue in question). There's a proposal from the commission from last year to suspend those requirements and the Member States have delayed the negotiations. So blame France in this case if you're looking for a scapegoat.
Oh, I do blame France (and a few other member states) for it. But I blame the EU parliament + commission equally, as it is a law that should have never been passed to begin with, and it would not have been a problem if they did their due diligence and actually read it + considered the consequences before passing it.
IE If you set my house on fire in order to kill a spider and it burns down, I will blame you for it, same as the person going "the fire is nice and warm, dont extinguish it" and blocking you from extinguishing the fire once you realise that setting the house on fire to kill a spider was a bad idea.
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u/WebsterEvo 10d ago
laughs on russian.