> Yet in some media(particularly in the UK) it's portrayed as EU telling member countries what to do, without any notion that those countries also voted on this

> Yet in some media(particularly in the UK) it's portrayed as EU telling member countries what to do, without any notion that those countries also voted on this issue and agreed to it. this is true, but the EU institution used its power to force through a proposal which several countries were extremely upset with. this was the first real example of Qualified Majority Voting being used in a controversial way, resulting in a lot of people becoming upset... suddenly the EU could no longer be seen as an institution that works almost entirely on consensus it certainly modified my views on whether or not I wanted the EU institutions gaining more power, or even retaining the ones they have at the moment