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Re:EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass... by stephen_g on Thursday June 05, 2025 @10:41PM (#44197378)
In Australia our cabinet is made up of elected Members of Parliament. They are appointed to their ministry but only our of the pool of elected MPs in the party or coalition with a majority.
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Re:EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass... by littlestymaar on Friday June 06, 2025 @02:59AM (#44198431)
Good to know, this is definitely an exception in World's democracies though.

(And if you checked the European Commissioners, most of them have been elected before and a handful were members of the Parliament right before their nomination. They are definitely politicians and not bureaucrats)

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