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Why Voters are Unequal in the European Parliament

Voters in smaller countries have more power in the European Parliament than voters in larger countries. This is known as degressive proportionality: the smaller the population, the more MEPs as a share of the population. It’s a deliberate design, intended to prevent voters in smaller countries from being dominated by voters in larger countries. But Parliament is about representing people, not states. Indeed, the Council already empowers smaller countries. Not only that, but disproportionality provides a built-in electoral advantage to some parties. And most fundamentally, it seems to undermine the core democratic principle of one-person-one-vote. This could be solved either by allocating MEPs in a strictly proportional way, or by introducing a transnational list for the most pure form of one-person-one-vote. Twitter:   / chris_talman   Discord:   / discord   Support my work with a donation: https://ko-fi.com/christalman Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... European Union videos: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/ https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/s... 00:00 Introduction 00:48 Key facts about MEPs 01:31 Degressive proportionality 01:53 Citizens per MEP 02:10 Vote weight 02:21 MEPs a large state would have with smaller state proportionality 03:26 Prevent larger states dominating smaller states 03:51 Council already empowers smaller states 04:23 Built-in electoral advantage for some parties 05:41 One-person-one-vote 06:38 Solution 1: Proportionate allocation of MEPs 06:53 Solution 2: Transnational list 07:42 Conclusion #eu #politics #essay