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This is why the EU is not in fact a democracy, but a benign totalitarian fascist state. Member states, do not, in fact, control the governing policies being enforced on them by their masters.



And where do you think the people in the commission come from? National governments; what happens there is simply that stuff that couldn't be made to pass nationally gets readministered via the EU.

Besides, the EU is not a 'state'.


Who voted for the EU President? (Nobody: He was installed by Heads of Industry from the member states..)

>Besides, the EU is not a 'state'.

Yup, and therein lies the problem.


Who voted for the German president? Nobody.


Does Germany's President veto stuff he doesn't like? (Nope. He can't.)


Indirectly he can. If he choses not to sign new laws.




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