Every society has its petty bureaucrats and mean nannies, and in a democracy, they can't always get what they want. So they migrate to non-democratic sections

Every society has its petty bureaucrats and mean nannies, and in a democracy, they can't always get what they want. So they migrate to non-democratic sections of the political sphere to assert themselves, and EC is one of those. The EU has a significant "democratic deficit" as a whole, too much indirection between people and the ruling Eurocrat class.