I don’t know why you’re getting voted down for sharing your experience. That’s not how the voting should work IMHO.
I get that you get an emotional connection and can see them as potential babies, but not real babies right? Aren’t a lot of embryos discarded once the ivf is successful? I haven’t been through one so you tell me. Losing one or more of those would be very VERY less traumatic than losing one of my born kids. At least to me, losing an embryo, or a few thousand wouldn’t even register.
I don’t have any strong opinions on UvdL myself. Some things she seems to have done well, some things very badly, like the phone text messages not being made public.
Like you I’m very much a democrat and I agree fully, except that I also think that the nature of politics is that compromises will have to be made. So if you don’t do what you say you will, then you will have to have something to show for it, and the voters will tell you if it was enough.
The post-truth and identity politics infuriate me to no end though.
The tech is already here, but yeah, it’s not enough to meet the demand. Not by a longshot. It’s very underutilised though. We could make a lot more biomethane than we currently do. If we can make enough I don’t know, but I’d like us to use that rather than fossils.
Yeah, she was elected. Can’t really say if she’s been good or bad, a bit of both I think.
Having the council of ministers select a candidate and then have the parliament vote on it seems like an acceptable way of doing it, especially since its the job of the commission to look to the entire bloc and not any specific country.
What would be a better way of selecting a commission president?