A public consultation, conducted online, to which 4 million people (less that 1% of the population of Europe) answered. 3 million of those were from Germany.

I'm baffled about the fact I somehow managed to miss that there was an official poll / call for direct citizen feedback on such a topic I personally care about.

I might have bit a bit distracted ... or the whole poll might not have been conducted particularly well.

Overrepresentation of a particular country might be a tell tale sign of local media coverage that was effectively done only in one country.

I'm not sure if they actually pretend these are representative of the general public opinion.

So basically I have now lost all hope that we are ever going to drop the switch in this century.

So much for public consultation and Europe being an oppressive administration force (some say it was made on purpose to highlight individual states unwillingness to cooperate).