MEPs accidentally vote wrong way on copyright law
I'm not a citizen of an EU member state. But from an outside perspective, a significant number of MEPs "accidentally voting the wrong way" seems to indicate a severe and systemic problem with the European Parliament.<p>Failure of one the fundamental 
mechanisms of representative democratic government calls into question the legitimacy of that government, <i>and of that system of government.</i><p>This is ammunition for the advocates of illiberal systems.