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What do you mean? I've seen plenty of discussions of say, the minimum wage, that don't assume the pro- side is explicitly aiming to drive low-wage workers out of jobs.
Not anywhere in Europe that I know of. It's the government ID card, or a passport, nothing else. I suppose I can't guarantee no one else does it, but driver's license-as-ID is a distinctly American thing to me, that,if anything, sounds more exclusive not less (what if I never owned a car, so never bothered getting one? Don't driving lessons + exam cost way more than getting an ID?).
The EU has no centralized database of citizens, but every EU citizen can vote in the local and European elections in the country they live in.
That's something that can be debated, or added as a condition for supporting the policy. No need to go "muh racism".
Individual countries are smaller, but not by that much. Germany has a population of 80 million. Russia spans a larger area and has 140 million. The EU is more decentralized, spans a comparable area to the US, and has 400 million people.
None of this strikes me as particularly relevant in the era of the digital panopticon anyway.
You can vote with a driver license in The Netherlands.
EU elections are extremely weird in that you vote for a national party, that then has to join a European party to have any actual influence. So very few people actually have a clue which European party they are actually voting for, or even which European party exist or what they actually vote for or against. In my country, the media have mostly given up on reporting on it, so the politicians can pretty much do what they want without the populace noticing.
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