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1. gizajob · 1789546655 · focus · HN ↗

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   1. phoronixrly · 1789547077 · focus · HN ↗

      You keep spreading this, but the eurocommssion president gets appointed by the European Council, which consists of democratically elected heads of state.

      She is no less democratically elected than the prime minister of a parliamentary republic... They get appointed by the democratically elected parliament.

      1. ExoticPearTree · 1789547730 · focus · HN ↗

         > You keep spreading this, but the eurocommssion president gets appointed by the European Council, which consists of democratically elected heads of state.

         It does not matter who elects the EU commission, there needs to be a popular vote across the EU for every commissioner job and the EU Commission head. What we have today in EU is pure BS: every country gets a commissioner based on that country's influence within the bloc and every time a new country joins the EU, a new commissioner role just happens to be created.

         I want to be able to choose from a number of candidates who should run the EU, not the prime minister or the president of a member country.

         Everybody who holds even a little power in the EU construct needs to be voted by EU citizens, not appointed by who knows who.

         This second- or third-hand "democracy" is not a democracy at all.

         1. ben_w · 1789551991 · focus · HN ↗

            If this is your standard, that's fine.

            The US (electoral collage and 2 senator seats per state) and the UK (government ministers don't need to be MPs) also fail at this definition, and I would like them to be better in general too.

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