> The rules of travel to Europe have changed. Starting in mid-2025, some 1.4 billion people from over 60 visa-exempt countries are required to have a travel authorization to enter most European countries.
If you didn't vote in your country's election, then yeah, you probably didn't vote for it. But otherwise, you did. It's just that Europe operates under representative democracy rather than direct democracy.
Technically if your voted representative didn't get elected then indeed you didn't vote for this. But the elected person technically still represents you as an equal rights citizen. So yes, your representative can do things for which you didn't vote.
The agreement we have in a representative democracy is that even if someone who didn't vote wins, they still represent me and I accept this, as otherwise it wouldn't be much of a democracy at all :)
It's literally immigration control, which is what the new version of the PPE stand for (it moved quite a bit right on this particular issue), and what a lot of european country voted for.
Do you remember not voting for all the other things you didn't vote for too but became law because that's the kind of society that you live in and you know that?
I don't remember voting for this....