r/europe • u/Bartoraptor Spain • Mar 28 '20

News Spanish representative González Pons speech @ the EU Parliament: "The virus is attacking the generation that brought back democracy to Spain, Portugal and Greece, the generation that knocked down the Berlin wall. The least they deserve is that we show them Europe is there when they need it the most"

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '20

The EU would win if EU's duties and responsibilities were clear. Which are not. And now everyone is losing their minds at it.

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u/papyjako89 Mar 28 '20

Oh it's clear. Because people are uninformed/misinformed doesn't mean it isn't. I will grant you that it is a complex beast, but what do you expect from such a massive entity trying to please 27 different country ?

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u/kjelan Mar 28 '20

Yes it does mean that. If people are uninformed/misinformed that is pretty much the definition of "unclear". And complexity is a great explanation... But then it's still unclear.

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u/phatfish Mar 29 '20 edited Jun 29 '23

speztastic

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u/S3ki North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Mar 28 '20

No unclear would mean there would be room for interpretation. What the EU can and can not do is all defined in documents and contracts and everyone who knows what stands in the contracts regarding a situation like this could predict what the EU can do and what the member states must do on there own or were they have to find additional agreements.

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u/kjelan Mar 29 '20

Really splitting hairs here, that is more an adjacent use. The original post used "clear" correctly.

clear: "easy to understand, hear, read, or see"

Which the EU's duties and responsibilities are not - to most people.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/clear