Some more discussion about this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_deficit_in_the_European_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_deficit_in_the_

Some more discussion about this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_deficit_in_the_European_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_deficit_in_the_Europ... And yes it passes the parliament, however 1) treaties can be adopted without a parliamentary "yes" (has happened many times in the past, because it didn't even used to be asked at all) 2) parliament can say yes or no, but cannot change anything. 3) looking at the contents of previous treaties, it is blatantly obvious that the rules introduced using this instrument would never have passed parliament using other means. An example of this would be, well, and example of this would be TTIP itself, if the contents are what they're rumored to be, which seems like. Other examples include, for example, the copyright directive [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Directive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Directive