[ossobuco]

> The main problem I see is not the "accountability", as the commissioner is accountable to the council that picked them.

You realize that cannot work when both the council and the commissioner play on the same political agenda? For the council to hold the commissioner accountable it would mean to admit their own guilt. There is no incentive for them to do this, so there is no mechanism for accountability at all.

One example? VDL privately conducting EU business with Pfizer for a vaccine purchase on her phone (illicit) and refusing to provide the text messages to the EU's general court. All while her commission is supposedly based on defending standards of transparency, efficiency and so on.

What about her countless delusions about Russia's economy being about to collapse while all she accomplished was to send EU in a recession?

Or her blindly pursuing a policy of dependence on the USA and hostility towards China, only for the US to dump us as soon as they got a new president?

Please tell me where's the accountability in all of this.

Or why now, given her track record made up entirely of failures, we should trust her to guide the EU into a new very delicate historical phase.

[surgical_fire]

You completely ignored the body of my message to complain about EU leadership, offering no sources, just a bunch of grievances (some of which are dubious at best).

Not sure where the conversation would go on from here. You will just keep being angry.

[ossobuco]

I keep telling you this system is broken, you keep replying that this is how things are supposed to work in this system. I agree that this isn't going anywhere.