alt Hacker NewsIt seems to me that "no and don't ask again" should be a possible outcome of a vote on proposed legislation.
Without going into full detail on the procedure I'm imagining, such an outcome would bar consideration of equivalent legislation for several years and require a supermajority at several stages of the legislative process to override.
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> seems to me that "no and don't ask again" should be a possible outcome of a vote on proposed legislation
It can't be. At least not in a legislature. Defining what is the same question is itself a political question. And past legislatures being able to bind future ones is just a futurecasting veto. A single crap election could poison the pool on a raft of issues for generations.
The proper way to do this is through constitutional amendments. The fact that these are too difficult to do, currently, seems to be the bug.
The EU parliament is not a real parliament since it can't choose which laws it has to vote for, and in negociations ("trilogue") it doesn't hold the pen.
Basically, it can oppose new legislations but can't retract old laws.