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The European Parliament is impeccably democratic, its members selected by direct vote of EU citizens under a Proportional Vote system
The EU Council is way less democractic, being just made up of representatives of each local government in Europe with zero representation for any political forces not in government. It’s like a giant First Pass The Post system with electoral circles the size of countries, only worse so since citizens don’t directly vote for them, they vote for the people who nominate them (they’re government ministers, and local governments tend to be selected by local parliaments, who are the ones who are elected). Also in practice there is very little oversight over their actions since the Press barelly talks about them.
The EU Commission is even less democratic than the EU Council, since its members are nominated by the latter, so it’s even more indirect. It’s supposed by tradition to be one comissioner per country so nowadays there are a lot of commissioners for “irrelevant thing” and the whole thing is the result of a massive game of horse trading and cronyism, especially the head, with the result that plenty of comissioners are complete total crap - the only time my country had somebody as the EU commission head, it was the most crooked Portuguese politician ever to hold an international position (almost the opposite of the current head of the UN who is also a Portuguese) and the once he left after having done everything he could to favor the Finance Industry in the aftermath of the 2008 Crash and went to make millions working as a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs he ended up as the only ex-EU Commission president ever to have his EU building access credentials revoked, as he was illegally using it to just enter the buildings whenever he wanted to do do some behind-closed-doors “lobbying”. It looks like Germany is currently suffering from the same problem of having put an incompetent crook as EU Commission head.
Unsurprisingly, most of the “unbelievably authocratic” shit comes from the Council or the Commission.
Frankly I can see why the Council is as it is - it makes sense to have a place were the various governments of EU nations get represented - but the Commission should be entirelly chosen by the EU Parliament, just like local parliaments chose governments in all european countries which don’t have a strong presidential system.
Nah.
The European Parliament is impeccably democratic, its members selected by direct vote of EU citizens under a Proportional Vote system
The EU Council is way less democractic, being just made up of representatives of each local government in Europe with zero representation for any political forces not in government. It’s like a giant First Pass The Post system with electoral circles the size of countries, only worse so since citizens don’t directly vote for them, they vote for the people who nominate them (they’re government ministers, and local governments tend to be selected by local parliaments, who are the ones who are elected). Also in practice there is very little oversight over their actions since the Press barelly talks about them.
The EU Commission is even less democratic than the EU Council, since its members are nominated by the latter, so it’s even more indirect. It’s supposed by tradition to be one comissioner per country so nowadays there are a lot of commissioners for “irrelevant thing” and the whole thing is the result of a massive game of horse trading and cronyism, especially the head, with the result that plenty of comissioners are complete total crap - the only time my country had somebody as the EU commission head, it was the most crooked Portuguese politician ever to hold an international position (almost the opposite of the current head of the UN who is also a Portuguese) and the once he left after having done everything he could to favor the Finance Industry in the aftermath of the 2008 Crash and went to make millions working as a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs he ended up as the only ex-EU Commission president ever to have his EU building access credentials revoked, as he was illegally using it to just enter the buildings whenever he wanted to do do some behind-closed-doors “lobbying”. It looks like Germany is currently suffering from the same problem of having put an incompetent crook as EU Commission head.
Unsurprisingly, most of the “unbelievably authocratic” shit comes from the Council or the Commission.
Frankly I can see why the Council is as it is - it makes sense to have a place were the various governments of EU nations get represented - but the Commission should be entirelly chosen by the EU Parliament, just like local parliaments chose governments in all european countries which don’t have a strong presidential system.