[feeela]

Because the European Commission is not a democratic institutionen! Those bureaucrats are mostly announced, not elected. And each European nation is only sending those politicians into the Commission, that are unwanted in national politics.

In other words: The European Commission is the autocratic reservoir for conservative politicians that were to extremistic for national audiences.

[fanagra32]

If you really think that those guys are extremists, then you haven't seen nothing yet.

Take a peek over to Italian politics and you get a glimpse of what could be coming.

Or Israel.

[atlantic]

Politicians are sent to Brussels as a reward, not as a form of exile. Those who are most compliant, lacking in initiative, devoid of original ideas, are sent there, after a career in national politics. They're not unwanted, and they're not conservative. They are just obedient non-entities.