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throwaway10507 | 2 years ago

How do EU parliament elections help you choose the EU commission members?

In your average EU country the elected parliament chooses the government. Not in EU.

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0dayz|2 years ago

It functions exactly the same as an average EU country, you vote for a party, which have a vote on accepting or rejecting the proposal for the current proposed government (which is handpicked by political parties).

In the EU it works exactly the same: you vote for a party, which has a vote on accepting or rejecting the proposal for the current proposed commission (where there has to be 1 nominee from each member state and is handpicked by the council of European Union, i.e. your ELECTED state ministers)[1][2].

Can the EU become more democratic? Absolutely, but that will be at the expense of EU member state's sovereignty, which is why it looks like it does right now.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union#...

throwaway10507|2 years ago

You have just confirmed my point.

There is no EU country that has a Council like that. Heads of state very often don't represent the majority of a country.