A large majority of Dutch as well as German legislation is dictated from the EU, to which all member-states have outsourced great swathes of national sovereignt

A large majority of Dutch as well as German legislation is dictated from the EU, to which all member-states have outsourced great swathes of national sovereignty. So it migth at least be argued that their common ruler is Jean-Claude Juncker or some similar unelected bureaucrat or sinecurean.