[an9n]

This really is jumping through hoops to excuse the fact that a citizen of the EU has no way of directly removing these people via their vote.

[swores]

That's true of most countries, the best we can do with our vote is hope that when mixed with many other votes it leads in the direction we prefer, sometimes in a direct count, often in a multi-staged affair where your vote may or may not influence a local MP/senator/whatever which will then potentially influence which political party's leader becomes the PM/president/whatever.

Maybe (surely) the EU could be restructured to be even more democratic, but isn't that also true for pretty much every country in the world?

[hef19898]

But in most EU countries the current government can actually be removed a vote of non-confidence by the respective parliaments. More often than not with a simple majority vote. US style impeachment has much higher hurdles to pass.

[disgruntledphd2]

And generally, you can't either vote for or remove a specific minister either.

Like personally I would like if you could, at both national and EU level, but the fact that you can't isn't a specific failure of the EU.