It's clear that the current leadership of the EU has led it to slide away from democracy with a number of missteps that clearly don't represent the people of the EU , but the desires of a very small group of well-entrenched eurocrats.
It's time to let the EU know that we need change, because times are tough. The problem is: there is no mechanism for the people of the EU to petition the commission. Only lobbying groups
But you can vote for your representative in the Parliament, and effectively hold veto on commissioner overreach.
This worked fine while socialist parties held majorities in the EP; that's not the case anymore, and it shows: the Commission-Council axis has been excessively strengthened by conservative parties.
Good plan, except that there is 705 MPs and my country's vote only counts for 1-2% of those seats.
In addition, there is so much legislation being passed through the parliament, that the vast majority of MPs don't have much of a chance of knowing what they're actually voting for. Much less anyone else.
in theory you have that tiny amount of accuontability, in practice nobody votes like that and candidates don't even bother campaigning on EU issues, the MEP elections follow the local politics of each country, and practically they are only referenced by their local party affiliation. Most europeans dont even know what are the parties of the EP.
Again, i m not sure there s even a procedure to remove the EC president
It's time to let the EU know that we need change, because times are tough. The problem is: there is no mechanism for the people of the EU to petition the commission. Only lobbying groups