> The comissioners can't pass laws themselves, only propose them. Then what's the point of them? They are indirectly elected so that they can submit proposals

> The comissioners can't pass laws themselves, only propose them. Then what's the point of them? They are indirectly elected so that they can submit proposals that would normally be political suicide. > who is pushing things way beyond her remit I completely disagree. She is working exactly how the system is designed. Europe needs to replace the commission with a democratically elected body. One that is elected in a different way to the parliament to get a different cross section of the population. However as someone in the UK we have the exact same situation with the House of Lords.