[aldrich]

I don't believe its accurate to say that most EU states have no separation between executive and legislative branches.

The split is around 50%-50% with a majority of states actually having a bicameral system where these branches are separated, and this practically includes all major economic states of the EU as well as Poland and the EU itself. [1][2]

In recent legal material, your country (Poland) is a well-known example of an EU state where the governing party has been systematically breaking down this bicameralism and state of law to accomplish exactly what you're describing though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_parliaments_of_the_Eu... [2] https://data.ipu.org/compare?field=country%3A%3Afield_struct...

[soco]

The OP point was, that no matter how many chambers you have if one party wins majority in all of them and forms also the government (which usually happens), it will decide pretty much all it wants and go forward full steam with the opposition hopelessly running along barking. It's by design. The only chance is with coalitions as there will be more internal friction, but it's a very minor improvement indeed.