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> A non-democratic state controlling democratic states seems to me to be a spectacularly bad idea. But I'm a consultant and I've worked and work for these peopl

• candiodari 8y ago
  EU elections aren't selecing the people who make laws. That's the commission and the EU council. By that standard the Soviet Union, China and Saudi Arabia are/were democratic too. They all have/had elections. Elections that do not determine who has legislative and executive power are not elections. The reason why is of course simple. People in member states do not care about the EU. They care about local politics 99% of the time. On top of that member states electorates do not agree on the issues. Not on what the issues are in the first place and certainly not on what is to be done about them. There is no way for politicians to campaign across the EU, it's all done locally. Therefore the assessment of most fonctionnaires in Brussels is probably correct: there is no way to have an effective democratic EU. They also asses that they don't want to do that, as it would not be a unifying force. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Soviet_Union [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Saudi_Arabia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Saudi_Arabia