I suspect EU can stay together for ease of trade, but some countries will go back to local currencies. Nobody wants to buy the low-yielding EU bonds.
The unelected EU rulers are a disgrace to the people who died or suffered in the wars of the 1900s.
The unelected EU rulers are a disgrace to the people who died or suffered in the wars of the 1900s.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/hearings2019/commissi...
The EU Parliament elections by the direct citizens vote were on 23–26 May 2019.
Her election is really not much different than election of any other prime minister / executive in parliamentary democracies.
The only difference is that the president of the EU Commission is proposed by the member states.
The people have little influence in what is being forced on them. I suspect this will end with some EU member States going their own way, after the people demand it.
> Taking into account the elections to the European Parliament and after having held the appropriate consultations, the European Council, acting by a qualified majority, shall propose to the European Parliament a candidate for President of the Commission. This candidate shall be elected by the European Parliament by a majority of its component members. If he does not obtain the required majority, the European Council, acting by a qualified majority, shall within one month propose a new candidate who shall be elected by the European Parliament following the same procedure.
Article 17(7) Treaty on European Union (TEU)
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
To be honest, I don't even know what is the legal basis of the whole lead candidate idea. Do you know?
The main political power in EU resides with the member states.
Most of EU countries are parliamentary democracies where executives are not directly elected.
EU Commission is an executive body for the member states with regard to the competences granted to EU by the member states.
EU Commission is confirmed by EU Parliament and can be also dismissed by EU Parliament in vote of no confidence.
USA is a presidential democracy where a lot of power resides with a single person.
Supreme Court Judge in USA is appointed for life and is supposed to be independent from the rest of the power structures.
Granted, the commissioners do not have a lot of power (they have less effective power than the parliament as long as the subject isn't trade and economic competition) but still.