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The law making body of the EU is directly elected.



The Council of the EU made these antitrust laws and they are not directly elected.


The EU council is composed mainly of the heads of state or heads of government of each member state.

All EU countries are democracies (at least supposedly, we have Hungary after all).

The heads of state/government on democracies are not conjured up from thin air buddy, those are elected.

You might be thinking of the European Commission, those are appointment by members of the council (that are elected) and confirmed by the European Parliament (also elected). The European Commissioners are more like ministers in a regular country. So saying they are unelected is as silly as saying that the minister of defense or minister of internal affairs in a country was unelected.


Elected officials appointed to a position, buddy. Not "directly" elected, like the GP claimed.

You may be thinking of the EU Parliament, which is directly elected, but who did not pass these antitrust regulations.


The EU Council is mainly composed by heads of state or government.

In some countries that may be a president (which is directly elected), in others a prime minister (which you may argue is indirectly elected by a elected parliament).

We may argue if presidentialism is somehow more democratic than parliamentarism, but prime ministers are undeniably elected (they are in the parliament after all).

Also, whatever regulations proposed by the EU council or commission, they have to be approved by the parliament. That's their whole job.

You are, honestly, just speaking bullshit about something you clearly don't understand, probably regurgitating bad takes you read online somewhere.


You literally just agreed with me in your first few sentences and then ended by saying I'm talking bullshit. Weird hill for you to die on since it's a minor detail and not even the main point in my original argument.

It just reads like you want to argue with someone online.


I didn't agree with anything you said.

Heads of state/government are elected.




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