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The commission has a member of each EU country and those members come from the elected governments. It‘s just like the government is not elected in many countr
by quonn 3y ago
The commission has a member of each EU country and those members come from the elected governments.
It‘s just like the government is not elected in many countries but instead the parliament is elected and that votes for a prime minister who chooses his ministers.
- jowea 3y agoIf the EU worked like a normal parliamentary government then parliament would have the right to initiate legislation. And it would be able to nominate whoever it wished for president of the commission as long as there was a parliamentary majority. The EU has confederal aspects that don't really work in the ways normal modern democracies work.
- hef19898 3y agoWhich kind of makes sense, as the fear isbthat the emeber nations loose their sovereignty. Hence, the elected governemnts of those memeber states agreeing on things, with the directly elected EU parliament approving theom, or not. Seems like a reasonably balance here.