It's still censorship, whether or not you agree with it.
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The game we are playing is resulting in mass death and destruction in Ukraine, and slowly throttling the European economies. What's the point?
Perhaps if you expanded your frame of historical reference you might see more clearly.
The US president campaigns before a democratic election. The people know who they can choose before they vote. Same with the UK.
There is no democratic vote, with or without proxy, before the appointment of the Commission.
Why the downvote btw? This isn't reddit.
Having an executive made up of people selected by other politicians for political reasons is all very well as long as they understand that they do not have much legitimacy.
JC Junker, for all that he was a bit of an old sot, understood this very well.
Von der Leyen, either because of her immensely privileged background, or because of her inability to communicate in any diplomatic way, has revealed the undemocratic abomination at the heart of the European Project.
Her press conference with Stoltenberg (and Belgian nonentity Michel) at the outset of the Ukraine war deprived the EU of any room for manoeuvre in relations with Russia. She unilaterally committed hundreds of millions of people to a diplomatically absolutist position. Furthermore, she actively spun against attempts by Macron and Scholz to moderate that position.
The EU cannot continue like this: already I'm quite dubious as to whether it will survive the winter, with double digit inflation and mass industrial layoffs in prospect.
If Putin wants to play divide et impera with Russian fossil fuel supplies, she has certainly created the ideal conditions for him to do so.
She is corrupt (see Pfizer SMS) and unaccountable.
It is an association of democracies, led by an undemocratic executive that is increasingly out of control. At the moment it is busily destroying its own economy in a way that is baffling to many of its citizens.
If it doesn't evolve into something more democratic it probably hasn't long to go.