Comment by izacus
2 days ago
Funny how we never hear WHY EU is undemocratic in these posts. It's always this one line dropped in the middle of conversations.
And every time I push a bit the answer seems to be "EU didn't follow my preferred decision". :P
>WHY EU is undemocratic
The answer is simple. The EU institutions cannot be both directly elected and have executive authority over member states.
The reason is that by doing so one would create a conflict between the "democratic legitimacy" of the EU executive and the "democratic legitimacy" of national parliaments.
In the current model, the member states retain ultimate authority and democratic legitimacy through their delegates to the Council of Ministers.
No, for a time any criticism about EU democracy was brushed away. Especially at the time around Brexit. For obvious reasons. But they are undeniable in theoretical and practical terms. This is why the competence of the EU was restricted at first. Problem is that this restriction did get too loose.
Chat control should even be an EU issue. And few national states would be courageous enough to propose such legislation because the democratic accountability would be much stronger.