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The European commission are appointed by the Council of the EU which is composed by elected individual member countries' heads of government. Commissioners also
by ginko 7mo ago
The European commission are appointed by the Council of the EU which is composed by elected individual member countries' heads of government. Commissioners also need to be individually approved by the European Parliament which is directly elected.
Representative democracy is democracy. Basically all nation level democratic governments are representative democracies.
Being a cynic doesn't make you look clever.
- verisimi 7mo ago[flagged]
- okanat 7mo agoEU has citizens initiatives. Citizens can propose changes to the law and the parliament has to discuss it. Stop Killing Games movement actually got a foothold. EU as every healthy democracy has also non-elected experts (just like judiciary side) in its organs who can create law proposals. That's how we got USB-C and GDPR.
- ginko 7mo agoI do think you're cynical and wrong if you think you can't influence any political decisions on the EU level.
- verisimi 7mo agoHave you made any policy changes? Do you know someone who has?