I'm less sure that voting for them would make any difference, given the way elected politicians behave, but the levels of corruption seem to belie the bureaucra

I'm less sure that voting for them would make any difference, given the way elected politicians behave, but the levels of corruption seem to belie the bureaucracy, designed to prevent corruption. I feel that they're too keen on using Europe as some kind of club that encourages countries to soften in order to join - which I like - and less keen on fighting for the citizens, although this might be down to a disconnect and associated cluelessness about how things work. This whole anti-encryption crusade has a Mr Bean-like naive bumbling line of attack, unlike the parallel UK approach which is decidedly supervillain-like.