The EU is used to introduce laws that aren't supported on a national level. The parliament doesn't really help as an organ for control since it is dependent as

The EU is used to introduce laws that aren't supported on a national level. The parliament doesn't really help as an organ for control since it is dependent as an institution. I more and more believe that the EU is fundamentally defunct and instances like this and the ISP spying is further evidence. It is just making everyone poorer with its monetary policies and the civil liberties it fights for are not much more than smokescreens.