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No, not every decision made in Europe can be vetoed by any EU member state. Only EU decisions can be vetoed by EU member states.

This was implicit :(

Not really! People think everything is about the EU, but that's like an American thinking everything is a UN decision.

It’s effectively the same as what I mean - or a part of it. You fix this with either better "alignment” (ugh!) ie conviction of going in a particular direction, leading to a consensus. Or in turn, a conviction that the veto is bad and needs to be curbed for the overall benefit of everyone.

That's not been true for a long time. About 80% of EU laws are passed by qualified majority voting.