Lots of important jobs aren't elected. But got the job by being elected repeatedly for other things. Many important EU figures have been elected repeatedly for

Lots of important jobs aren't elected. But got the job by being elected repeatedly for other things. Many important EU figures have been elected repeatedly for national parliaments, as national ministers or for leadership positions in major national political parties, and only after that got an EU job. I think it's by design: The jobs are put together as a nationally/politically balanced team, picked from from a large set of candidates who have generally been accepted by national voters over a period of time.