Smart analysis! Media focus is primarily still on the member states in the EU, whereas in the U.S. it's totally flipped and the federal government gets much more media attention. There are certainly a lot of downsides in terms of policy when the U.S. media focuses so much on the feds and not what's happening at the state level...
Thanks for your comment Peder! The inversion between the EU and US is interesting. I suppose if you look at the extreme case of the US, boring politics might have upsides too...
I think one of the things that could help the EU get more media attention, is if the EU becomes more transparent. The Council is the worst of all. On most laws, barely anyone has a clue what the position of Member States is, and what they voted. Making that information public would help. Secondly as I wrote in this article, the European Parliament should become less boring, and become less of a consensus machine
Smart analysis! Media focus is primarily still on the member states in the EU, whereas in the U.S. it's totally flipped and the federal government gets much more media attention. There are certainly a lot of downsides in terms of policy when the U.S. media focuses so much on the feds and not what's happening at the state level...
Thanks for your comment Peder! The inversion between the EU and US is interesting. I suppose if you look at the extreme case of the US, boring politics might have upsides too...
I think one of the things that could help the EU get more media attention, is if the EU becomes more transparent. The Council is the worst of all. On most laws, barely anyone has a clue what the position of Member States is, and what they voted. Making that information public would help. Secondly as I wrote in this article, the European Parliament should become less boring, and become less of a consensus machine