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The commission has a range of powers that the parliament doesn’t have - the ability to initiate legislation and set budgets for instance. Yes, it depends on the parliament to approve stuff, but so? Like in the UK, which is the more powerful body - parliament or the lords? Obvs parliament, even tho it’s dependent on the lords to ratify its shit. Just because there’s some constitutional checks and balances doesn’t mean that power can’t lie more in one place than another.
Also, the commission gets up to a bunch of extra-curricular shit. Going back to Greece, it wasn’t the EU parliament in the troika, it was the commission. That’s an expression of power.
Eejit
I'm not sure if it is accurate to say the Commission is "massively more powerful" than the Parliament, as what it can actually do is limited by the need for Parliament's amendments in committee, and approval at plenary level.