Eurobros, why do you guys have a president AND a prime minister? Why would you need both?

Eurobros, why do you guys have a president AND a prime minister? Why would you need both?

How else would they prime the president to suck the U.S.'s dick

It's politics
Nothing an American would necessarily have to understand (or..well, be able to rather)

Real european countries have a King or Queen as head of state.

In a real democratic republic, the position of president is largely ceremonial, with little actual political power. It's a figurehead and representative of the country at international events, a kind of uniting force that exists outside politics as usual.
The US presidential position is a total perversion of the principles of a republic.

Too much money, the president can't steal it all.

in parliamentary systems the head of state and head of government are separated
the head of government (prime minister) is in charge of the country and rules through elected power
the head of state (president or Monarch) doesn't usually have any power and is a ceremonial position, they do have the power to remove the head of government in an emergency

We don't

yeah, you have a 90year old cunt instead

France has a presidential republic because French republicanism was directly inspired by the US political system. Most European cunts however emulated the British system instead.

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France isn't a federal state like the US though, it's a unitary state with heavy centralization where all political power flows out of Paris.

That's true but the French president does have most of the executive power, and that was copied directly from the US Constitution, which was enacted the year of the French Revolution. France isn't a federal state because the revolutionary governments suppressed regionalism in an attempt to build a cohesive national identity.

fucking watch it you cunt

most countries use the british system because most countries are or used to be monarchies that replaced the monarch with president and established the prime minister as the executive power

Most euros are not presidential but a parliamentarian republics. So, a Prime minister is the one having administrative power. The president on the other hand is a figure head and the leader of the army in the time of war.

Presidents do not yield real power here.

>Most European cunts however emulated the British system instead

Generally speaking, yes. European countries gradually moved away from absolutism during the 19th century, but a limited, parliamentary monarchy was seen as more effective and stabilizing than the dangerous French republicanism.

fun fact: if you care about politics you're a nerd and a loser

Germany, Italy, and Spain are federal states. Britain also kind of is. Most countries in Europe however are unitary which is why they have no relevant cities outside the capital.

Note that governments in Germany, Italy, and Spain never tried to suppress regionalism as they did in France, which is why shit like Basque and Catalan independence movements pops up from time to time.

>Never tried to supress regionalism
We had state sponsored terrorists burn basque teenagers alive for being nationalists not that long ago.

In regards to federalism and republicanism, I can point out that we had to fight a war and kill 600,000 people to get rid of slavery when the British parliament simply passed an edict one day to abolish slavery and that was that. But then the result of that was to strengthen Federal power and weaken states rights anyway, so...

>which is why they have no relevant cities outside the capital.

I've always wondered why this was. How come Euros accept having everything be dominated by one city?

I'd said why it works that way in France, but I don't know about other countries. They copied the French model? I dunno.

I wish we only had a president, would be funny.

>Most countries in Europe however are unitary which is why they have no relevant cities outside the capital.
that's oversimplified to the point of being misleading
of the big European countries it's mostly France and the UK that are so completely dominated by the capital and the reasons for that differ between the two

it also applies to many other smaller European countries but they're so small that only having one relevant city isn't noteworthy

Consider the history of those cunts. Germany, Italy, and Britain were created by unifying a bunch of smaller states, preserving regional identities was necessary to ensure their loyalty to the central government. France was already a unified nation-state in 1789, but the revolutionary governments like you mentioned suppressed regionalism in part because a lot of outlying areas were monarchist and hostile to the revolution, which had its main support base in Paris. So basically, they were trying to stamp out monarchist resistance in the country.

Spain was also a unified nation-state since the end of the reconquista in the 15th century, but they just never bothered to suppress regionalism there.

>but they just never bothered to suppress regionalism there.
Fucking stop

And the British army crushed the last Scots Highlander uprising in the 1740s, yet Scotland tried to secede only two years ago. Your point?

Russia is also a federal state, in that case regionalism was never suppressed because the vast size of the country made it impossible.