[Xelbair]

There's democratic deficit in the whole system as this issue wasn't part of most internal election campaigns, effectively circumventing democratic process, due to lack of input from citizens themselves.

EU severely lacks checks and balances if it tries to be something more than trade union.

[vanviegen]

Are you suggesting the existence democracies that only ever implement policies that were a significantly theme during elections?

[Saline9515]

The EC has no democratic control, their members are not elected, only the commissioners are "approved" by the european parliament. Its actions are also obfuscated and mostly non-public (as we saw in the ChatControl case, for instance), so citizens hardly even know what's happening.

[Xelbair]

I'm suggesting that there are enough layers of interdiction, that you can easily 'wash' political fallout and push legislation that would otherwise get you voted out of office in local elections.