> How does democracy work if citizens have very little idea about how that works in the EU? Democracy doesn't work if the citizens do not care about the very e

> How does democracy work if citizens have very little idea about how that works in the EU? Democracy doesn't work if the citizens do not care about the very entities that administer their lives on their behalf. The EU isn't impenetrable, or at least no more impenetrable than the national and local governments, but most people just do not care enough to learn how it works. Admittedly, that apathy has been reinforced by many national politicians who wanted the EU to remain abstract and obscure in order to better use it as scapegoat for their own failures.