>EU parliament is the only legislature in the world that needs permission to legislate It makes sense, because EU law is mostly technical stuff that commission

>EU parliament is the only legislature in the world that needs permission to legislate It makes sense, because EU law is mostly technical stuff that commission has to draft and all the national governments have to agree to. With the commission being elected by the parliament itself and vote of no confidence being a thing, it's not like the parliament doesn't have power -- the power is intentionally nerfed to not overreach where national governments don't want it to.