The mechanism in question was and is known by all participant countries that joined the EU.
Not perfect, but is there a better system at reach?
There's a country I heard, overseas, where it can happen that someone is elected president although they didn't get the majority of the people's vote.
That is just not true. The mechanism was changed drastically by Lisbon treaty - no more vetos, qualified majority now overrules the rest. Needless to say, 'no' was not accepted as an answer to European Constitution/Lisbon treaty, as reminded by referendums in France, Netherlands and Ireland. This is the true nature of the EU.
The referendums were a disgrace, true. So were they because referendums are often organised, and seen, and used, as votes of confidence for a given government, and not as expressions for the very question.
Find any country, political structure that is pure, of anything.
But still. Here we are. More than 70 years at peace on a continent, something not seen for several centuries before that. The EU project, and structure, and growth, and maturity, is central to that peace.
How factually worse, exactly, have been any EU member, since they joined the Union? How factually better have they been as well?
Pretending that EU members would be better off without the union is a plain, undocumented, geopolitically hostile, lie.
> So were they because referendums are often organised, and seen, and used, as votes of confidence for a given government
From the grab-bag of possible explanations...
> But still. Here we are. More than 70 years at peace on a continent
Also an amazing co-incidence that NATO has been in existence for 70 years. Containing three nuclear powers, it doesn't take a leap of imagination that it was a greater deterrent than whatever you had in mind.
How has your version worked over 70 years? The EU has only been in existence since 1994. Prior to that, it existed in a smaller, trade-only form as the EEC. I thought the 'butter mountain' and 'wine lake' were figures of speech. So were they physical defences, something like an obstacle course to deter the Russians? /s
(edit for that: I'll answer for you: Trump is sowing chaos because that's how his kind grabs more control and more riches.)
Btw, there are 2 nuclear powers in the EU as of today.
I don't really buy that. There were a number of years of peace before the EU even existed; crediting the EU with the peace therefore seems a bit revisionist.
Edit: additionally just because countries are "better off" does not mean they should happily agree to every new power grab by Brussels. Some ex-soviet republics were also better off than before they "joined".
As soon as the EU falls apart you will see everyone feeling cheated or oppressed by its neighbour for all kind of reasons not to mention territorial reclaims. War will be inevitable. The big powers will profit most(Russia, China and the US).
For "better off" - apologies for being unclear - I didn't mean joining the EU. I was making the comparison that the same was true for countries that were (forcefully) joined into the Soviet union in mid 20th century.
(First what-about: the election system is related to but distinct from the ability of the Federal gov to force state-level laws)