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Originally posted by Jay&SilentBob:
I haven't voted in the poll but wanted to add my opinion.
It would be good if the UN DID have real international power, but there is really only one way to go about this. Give each nation one vote, including China, US, Russia and EU. Sure the EU may be made up of many countries but a way around that is to have internal voting, a majority of the EU countries voting to approve or disprove a UN charter then decides their vote either way. The same with US states if they wanted making a vote and the majority of states carry the vote for the country. Sure if some of the countries don't want to be lumped under the EU bloc then they can withdraw and have their own vote, but every vote should be equal no matter the size. And get rid of all the veto crap, that just disregards the entire voting system! What use is there to spend months or even years on a UN mandate only to find some country can then chuck it out the window in one hour by excercising their veto option. For all intents and purposes the US and the EU are entities that should only have one vote, they can sort it out internally before bringing it to the international stage but thats the only way I can see it working.
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So what you are saying is that frankly, The conitnents should have one vote each right? They should be able to sort it out internaly?
Africa one vote, Asia one Vote, South America one vote, The arab countries one vote, hey they should be able to to figure it out internaly right?
Sorry, but the EU is not like the US, it is a pact of agreement concerning mostly trades and an open market for the countries that signs the contracts. And if EU should get one vote, the former Yoguslavian countries should get how many votes? NAd should they loose that vote once they are members of an market trade?
Without either vetoīs or each country one vote you will get nowhere. US has a Veto as do Russia, fairly simple, two great powers that on their own could change the turn out events anyway if they like to.
But donīt do the mistake to bunch the EU members into one country. Nor do we act like a state either, it is on proposal but there are few regarding that proposal as something real yet.