> The German Constitutional Court referred to a "structural democratic deficit" inherent in the construction of the European Union.
But the reality is that the undemocracy of the EU shows in the rules it produces. For example a functioning democracy doesn’t get away with wasting hundreds of millions on moving its seat between cities, for no practical reasons. A functioning democracy doesn’t get to push for an end to cash money and a start for monitoring every significant bank transaction, with no pushback from the electorate. And there’s plenty of other rules to choose from.
The people directly elected, the European Parliament, can’t introduce new rules and only get to rubber stamp rules made by others.
Meanwhile the rules are introduced by the European Commission which is not directly elected and thus not democratically accountable.
Consider the very existence of this Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_legitimacy_of_the_E...
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> The German Constitutional Court referred to a "structural democratic deficit" inherent in the construction of the European Union.
But the reality is that the undemocracy of the EU shows in the rules it produces. For example a functioning democracy doesn’t get away with wasting hundreds of millions on moving its seat between cities, for no practical reasons. A functioning democracy doesn’t get to push for an end to cash money and a start for monitoring every significant bank transaction, with no pushback from the electorate. And there’s plenty of other rules to choose from.