Template talk:Politics of the European Union

message: Is all that information really needed? It is very big, perhaps something smaller and to the point? Re-evaluate what links people need and don't need? -JLogan 20:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reduce size

message: I've always though it was cluttered and unclear, so I've drafted a new version here. I have tried to clean it up without the hundreds of minor links (The CoR or EIB isn't that major) and organised less like a shopping list. What do you think? - J Logan t/c: 11:54, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: new design

message: a flag or one of the star circles, everything else is nonsense, I'm afraid. All the other templates have the CoA, so this should have the closest equivalent there is. —Nightstallion (?) 18:05, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Either

message: What a pain I am sometimes, but look, they're logo is flashier than ours.... :( Can we allow this to happen?! Ancient Rome can't be allowed to beat us! Anyone got ideas for making ours as spiffy? - J Logan t: 12:57, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Haha I made that one too.. But I'm not sure if the EU 'logo' should be any flashier than it is now. A sober colour like grey is probably the most 'correct' we should use for a serious political template.. I'm not sure. - \mathrm{S}. \mathrm{Solberg} \mathrm{J}. 13:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh of course, should have guess it was yours! :) To be honest I'm not sure how either. How about a grey-blue though? With the faded elements and perhaps a different projection of Europe to make it more... more... oh best ignore me! I really should get back to writing rather than messing around with images, just so long as we're not out done by the US articles! :p.- J Logan t: 14:01, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Again

message: transclusion removed
No, not for drinks. I was just thinking of articles where politics crosses between the EU and a member/candidate/another country and you have two bars side by side looking stupid or one has to go. Perhaps if we created a mini version of the EU politics bar which can slot above the national one? Just a few basic links, probably on enlargment of foreign relations as that is where it would be placed. Thoughts? -JLogan 19:40, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Brought idea back after seeing them squashed together on election pages to the detriment of maps etc. Idea shown to the right-User:JLogan/New politics template - J Logan t: 12:35, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mini-bar 

message: (TRANSCLUSION SUBSEQUENTLY REMOVED)
Created a revised version for post-Lisbon. FP doesn't fit into any single institution so created a small space for that, other details are up to date for it now except for the people -whom we do not know about yet.- J Logan t: 15:13, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks very good to me. —Nightstallion 20:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. if anyone wants to fiddle please do (with the template I mean of course), especially if someone has some amazing new idea. Its good to be at the forefront of design here rather than follow other's leads too much. - J Logan t: 20:51, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

text: (Oh, and the other of the institutions is as they appear in the treaties, to avoid problems of defining executive/legislative and the chain of power. That okay with people?)- J Logan t: 20:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure. The box looks good. I'm just terrified by the latest poll in Ireland.. - SSJ ☎ 11:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, its scary isn't it. Those guys are meant to be pro-EU and most of the anti side are just saying they don't understand it. I don't blame them. Plus, its not like last time, I doubt they could attach a declaration and try again as there is no specific fault this time. If only we could get more people reading our articles they might understand and hence vote yes? Who knows...- J Logan t: 21:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, perhaps reading our summary of changes could be a helpful addition to the government's denials of the text enabling free abortion. I just want to throw up every time Sinn Féin says that "a better deal for Ireland is possible". - SSJ ☎ 10:07, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I feel your pain, yeah. Well, we can only hope... —Nightstallion 23:15, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Excellent work as always. Ugh.. According to the latest polls, it does really look like it's going the right way this time, though I HATE the anxiety. Right now it kills me, but if the treaty is passed I'll probably use 100% of that energy to edit post-lisbon topics here while drinking Guinness. And I can't wait to see what sort of political threat/pressure Sarkozy and other leaders will impose when Klaus is the only hurdle left. - SSJ ☎ 23:50, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post Lisbon revision 

message: I have returned the flat stars and blue from the EU flag, no discussion or reasoning was made for the change to a darker blue and silly 3D stars. Fry1989 eh?  20:03, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Look of the template 

message: The template appears in the article Legislature of the European Union, but the article is neither linked nor easily accessible from the template. --Van Tuile (talk) 08:14, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Legislature of the European Union]] 

message: I recently completely rewrote the template using proper  syntax, which make it far easier to maintain as well as much less distracting. This has been undone; assuming there's no substantive reason for this other than one editor's personal sense of aesthetics I'll be reinstating the new version shortly. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 12:48, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Thumperward, thanks for the overhaul. I just came here, because I was shocked by the dark box in the article European integration. Your version is much more pleasant to read for me. 91.9.122.22 (talk) 16:05, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Code overhaul 

message: I moved the (powerless) "European Council" to the bottom of the list to reduce the chronic confusion with the (powerful) Council of the European Union. 2604:2000:6A90:3000:BC2F:C827:A1DB:A519 (talk) 15:30, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, it would be better to list the (powerless) "European Council" under "Other bodies"; I've moved it there. This should avoid a LOT of confusion in the future. 2604:2000:6A90:3000:BC2F:C827:A1DB:A519 (talk) 15:51, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reordering to demote "European Council" 

message: Since there is no EU "Legislature" (note that the link to "Legislature of the European Union" redirects to "European Union legislative procedure"), I re-titled the "Legislature" heading as "Council and Parliament". This change makes the Council and the Parliament visible at the top level, but it might be even better to promote them to separate top-level headings. 2604:2000:6A90:3000:BC2F:C827:A1DB:A519 (talk) 15:43, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed "Legislature" 

message: I was just coming to try and find out a bit about the structure of the EU and the changes of leadership, when I looked at this template I spotted a link to luxembourg under the words 'luxembourgish presidency' - having noticed the second link (to Presidency_of_the_Council_of_the_European_Union ) and followed that - it looks incorrect (perhaps it was correct 3 rotations ago, but it appears to be Maltese at the moment) - I'd suggest that having the nationality of a thing that changes every 6 months in a widely seen template is probably unwise. I'm going to be bold and attempt to carefully remove the word Luxembourgish (and link) from the template, but I thought I'd best give you the heads up here in case that's an error. EdwardLane (talk) 08:29, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luxembourgish ? 

message: It is pretty jarring to see this huge blue box on an article when every other info box is gray with black text. Is there any reason it's like this, and would anyone be against changing it to te standard color scheme? Obviously, the flag/coat orf arms would retain a blue background WikiWisePowder (talk) 16:11, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a navbox, I think it's ok to theme them like portal pages. This one looks reasonably decent as well. I'd agree if we were talking about an infobox or something. Rob984 (talk) 19:19, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this template white on blue? 

message: The white text on the blue background needs to go. It violates WP:COLOR. Also if you look at :Category:Politics by country sidebar templates, no other "Politics of ______" sidebar has a non-standard background. Wanted to put this here before I started the process of removing the color. --Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 03:05, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing the blue 

message: Under Member States, please change Sweeden, Kentucky to Sweden. Manicscumcat (talk) 21:14, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, thank you. Gulumeemee (talk) 03:15, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2018 

message: All mentions of Macedonia should be changed to North Macedonia
This:
* Macedonia
should become this:
* North Macedonia
: Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. there is an ongoing discussion about how to refer to Macedonia/North Macedonia. DannyS712 (talk) 02:18, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 18 February 2019 

message: # Since the 1st of December, 2019, the incumbent President of the European Council is no longer Tusk (EPP), but Michel (ALDE).
# Respectively -- in the European Commission section -- change: a) Juncker Commission to its successor: Von der Leyen Commission; b) President Juncker (EPP) to Von der Leyen (EPP); c) Secretary-General Selmayr to its successor: Juhansone. // Bukauskas (talk) 19:32, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done. meanwhile, I got autoconfirmed and I edited the templated myself. // Bukauskas (talk) 21:23, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 18 December 2019 

message: This looks like somebody tried to cram entire Wikipedia into one template. Needs to be trimmed down ALOT. --Palosirkka (talk) 11:06, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ridiculous size 

message: Initially, I wanted to simply suggest to add another section dedicated to European political parties, which seems very warranted for a menu on the politics of the European Union.
In light of the numerous comments above regarding the size of the menu, I still think that a section of European parties is very needed, but I also want to suggest merging sections on institutions.
Currently, the menu contains:
* Executive institutions
* Legislative institutions
* Judicial institutions
* Auditory institutions
* European Central Bank
* Other bodies
* Euratom
* Defunct bodies
All of these could be merged under a single item called "Institutions". Would this be agreeable to all?
Julius Schwarz (talk) 11:35, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Review content