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I'm not sure I find much validity in any of this article but I found the following interesting:

"The EU Commission can’t really claim to express the will of the people because the elected part of the EU can only amend policy, not make it."

Well laws are approved by the Council of Ministers (made up from our nationally elected representatives) and MEPs (our directly elected representatives). The Commission can propose laws and mostly do but they can only come into force if agreed by the other two groups.

Policy is not quite the same but in the en the Commission is appointed by the two other groups and can be removed by MEPs if they get too far out of hand.

On the other hand I accept that the functioning of the EU with regard to the EC is a long way from perfect. It's a crying shame that the debate leading up to the referendum didn't focus on useful things like how this works rather than the B emitting from both sides.

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