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> The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states

How exactly is it detached?

The EU parliament is elected.

The EU commission is composed of members appointed by each member state (and every member state is - or should be - a democracy, so the commissioner is s representative of an elected government).

I keep seeing this bullshit being repeated as if it was true, and whenever I ask I never get meaningful answers.

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They're socially detached. Yes, people vote for them; no, people do absolutely not follow anything the EU does until it reaches national parliaments.

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This socially qualifier completely changes the original meaning.

One might argue that even national governments that are directly elected are socially detached from the general population.

That is in my opinion a fault of society rather than fault of governments. If you don't care about politics, you are doomed to be ruled by those that do.

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I don't even know what language the Wednesday morning meetings that the commission have are held in. The official minutes are in French; are they conducted in French?

At least this was the case back in 2016 when I was doing as much research as I could before the referendum.