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blazey · 30-06-2009, 17:02

The EU actually have quite a tight policy on immigration. It's completely misinformed to think that the EU allows criminals to move freely between member states. The only people given any real right in the EU to move around are 'workers', their families and students, and these are subject to restrictions as well.

Most people just don't understand how the EU works, and the Europa website is a running joke with students like me who enjoy EU law, because it is the most inconvenient website to navigate even when you know exactly what you are looking for. Most of the time the search function won't even bring up specific documents that I am looking for so to access them I have to type the same thing into google and 'Europa' to find it. It's horrendous from my point of view so god help anyone who is searching information about something vague that they don't have much information about.

The EU lacks transparency in a lot of senses. One of the good things about the EU is that is does believe in subsidiarity, and so if an issue really is better dealt with by national parliaments and not the EU, then it is the national parliaments who will deal with it.

I'm very pro-EU, but before I had studied it I hadn't really given it much thought. It's a body which needs to interact more with it's national member states' citizens, and probably more so now in our case what with the BNP having seats, who represent very few people in reality.

I think politics in general fails people because it doesn't listen to what people say. Most of the time though, people just criticise without actually offering any real suggestions for change, so the people are probably just as much to blame as the politicians.

30-06-2009, 17:02	#38
blazey God Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denton/Oswaldtwistle Posts: 3,638 Blog Entries: 15 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 994	Re: The EU gravy train The EU actually have quite a tight policy on immigration. It's completely misinformed to think that the EU allows criminals to move freely between member states. The only people given any real right in the EU to move around are 'workers', their families and students, and these are subject to restrictions as well. Most people just don't understand how the EU works, and the Europa website is a running joke with students like me who enjoy EU law, because it is the most inconvenient website to navigate even when you know exactly what you are looking for. Most of the time the search function won't even bring up specific documents that I am looking for so to access them I have to type the same thing into google and 'Europa' to find it. It's horrendous from my point of view so god help anyone who is searching information about something vague that they don't have much information about. The EU lacks transparency in a lot of senses. One of the good things about the EU is that is does believe in subsidiarity, and so if an issue really is better dealt with by national parliaments and not the EU, then it is the national parliaments who will deal with it. I'm very pro-EU, but before I had studied it I hadn't really given it much thought. It's a body which needs to interact more with it's national member states' citizens, and probably more so now in our case what with the BNP having seats, who represent very few people in reality. I think politics in general fails people because it doesn't listen to what people say. Most of the time though, people just criticise without actually offering any real suggestions for change, so the people are probably just as much to blame as the politicians.