Addendum

When I wrote yesterday about voting for members of the EU parliament starting today, I failed to reflect that the voting continues into the weekend. So I suppose we won’t know results until perhaps Sunday ... alas.

I’m unclear why the voting is so protracted. Perhaps because the results have traditionally been of little interest to voters in most EU member countries and the longer voting period is an attempt to increase turnout to less embarrassing levels.

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If you aren’t clear what the so-called European Parliament actually does, this post by Power Line regular Paul Mirengoff describes its truly limited role.

The European Parliament isn’t like the U.S. Congress. It doesn’t legislate. That would be way too democratic for the EU.

The European Parliament doesn’t elect the EU’s leader, either. It’s not like, say, the British Parliament.

What, then, does the European Parliament do? In essence, it rubber stamps that which European leaders and bureaucrats want to impose.

Mirengoff adds that for the first time it appears the pro-EU ‘Brussels consensus’ may not have a majority in that rubber-stamp body. With the consensus gone, the unscripted fun begins.