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Majority-Rule Taxation for a Social-Federalist Europe

Europe should replace the unanimity rule on fiscal and budgetary matters—which lets tiny Luxembourg (0.1% of EU population) veto taxation of multinationals and billionaires—with majority-rule decision-making via a European assembly composed of national-parliament members allocated by population and political group, so decisions are not country-against-country; if Germany, France, Italy, and Spain (≈80% of eurozone GDP/population) are ready, they should proceed and invite others.

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Speaker

Thomas Piketty

Evidence Quote

Luxembourg, with 300,000 inhabitants, is less than 0.1 percent of the population of the European Union, which is 500 million. It’s even less than the nobility in France in 1789

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Thomas PikettyConversations with Tyler
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:24:48 AM

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