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You’re confusing the council and the commission. The council is the elected heads of state (like I say, concentrated executive power). The commission is unelected. Both bodies are massively more powerful than the parliament, which is the only directly elected entity. This imbalance has been apparent to everyone for decades, but the EU hasn’t seen fit to reform.
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tbc
See that is complete sentence I can engage with.
EDIT the EU council (not commission) is not unelected, it contains heads of state that are elected. It is not -directly- elected like the EU parliament, that is correct.
The ECB has too much power, and abused it, the EU parliament voted to end debt repayments in 30 years, whatever happened.
"rolled over a democratically elected socialist government"? People voted to stay in the Eurozone.
So yes, there are definitely some problems that needs addressed and I don't trust the EU, or the UK government, or any large institution a 100%.
There is also a lot of good like the EU developing regions funds, the Good Friday agreement, freedom of movement (a good thing), Erasmus, Euratom, EU citizen initiatives, EU peace fund, being able to stand up to other trade blocks