| Eu lawmaking in a nutshell: Commission (leaders of which are selected by your government that you presumably voted for) makes a draft. Commission consults widely (usually online consultation) and all national ministries comment. Commission redrafts and sends to parliament and council. In the council your government has (most of the time) veto power. In the parliament your and other countries delegates vote on it. Then parliament (people's representatives) and council (national government representatives) sit together, find the middle ground of a final draft. Parliament and council then each do a final vote. Depending on the exact type of legal document it either enters into force right away or your national administration, parliament and government create their own national version of it conform to the EU document and make that a national law. That's a pretty heavy process but it's just wrong to say that the voters don't have influence. National governments and delegates both can say no. Now is the parliament representative just because people are not from just one country? Is your national parliament representative even if there are people from different regions/cities/...? Is your major democratically elected just because that other suburb also got to vote? That's just an absurd position. |