> How does society resolve this kind of abuse of the democratic process? You need a means for citizens to hold the powers that be accountable. Unfortunately,

> How does society resolve this kind of abuse of the democratic process? You need a means for citizens to hold the powers that be accountable. Unfortunately, the EU is largely designed without such a mechanism, as its initial scope and ambition was much smaller than the superstate it is growing into it wasn't deemed necessary. Every branch except for the European Parliament risks consequences only if they fuck up so badly that the majority of EU citizens in their home countries (or in some cases, the majority of member states) deem their actions so reprehensible that they consider punishing the EU more important than electing their own national government, since it's effectively the same vote. This is technically still a means of accountability, but it's not really a threat in practice.