alt Hacker NewsThat’s an ideological issue. Many people if they could would move to one of such ‘imperial powers’ which means it’s not much of an actual issue.
Most Europeans seem to be fine being under the EU where they don’t get to vote those bureaucrats in.
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cess11 • last Thursday at 7:01 PM
US influence in Europe would be a much better comparison than indirection between positions and elections in the EU. As you surely know we've had a lot of interference in what parties are allowed and who can get elected and financing of organised crime coming from that direction.
> Most Europeans seem to be fine being under the EU where they don’t get to vote those bureaucrats in.
The political power in the EU comes from the national governments (directly and via the European commission) and the EU parliament. The members of parliament are elected. The national governments are also formed out of elected parliaments. There's also a body of administration and bureaucracy that comes out of these power structures, just like there is, by necessity, in any government ever, democratic or not.
Insinuating that this somehow equates to authoritarian forms of government appears deeply ignorant or dishonest to me.