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The council also uses qualified majority voting and has done for nearly a decade.

The Commission is the sole source of legislation. The Council cannot change EU law against the will of the Commission, so in practice it's a rubber stamp body that just always votes yes to everything.

This is what I'm saying in another comment: HN is flooded with incorrect claims about how the EU actually works, always in the direction of making it sound more accountable than it actually is.