European Commission: Commissioners are nominated by elected national governments and must be approved by the directly elected European Parliament.
Council of the EU: Ministers are accountable to their national parliaments, which are elected by citizens.
European Council: Composed of heads of state/government who were elected in their own countries.
European Parliament: Members are directly elected by EU citizens every five years.
With so many levels of indirection, that citizen votes are irrelevant and they don't need to care about it - only about support of major political group at the top. And surprisingly enough Parliment is relatively stable.
>Council of the EU: Ministers are accountable to their national parliaments, which are elected by citizens.
same as above.
i don't advocate for leaving the EU, but this needs to change. Those positions, which are the ones pushing for such legislation usually, need to be held accountable by citizens. At least EC.
No more rotations, or other such bullshit.
Right now EU is sitting in middle ground between federation and trade union, reaping(from citizens point of view) downsides of both systems.