[Phil_Latio]

The EU clearly moves in that authoritarian direction, not away from it.

[bestouff]

Each and every state does nowadays

[immibis]

Any legislative body keeps making legislature, yes, that's what it does.

Most legislative bodies make a lot of legislature that keeps things away from people, like GDPR. That's "authoritarian" if by "authoritarian" you mean "more legislation". If by "authoritarian" you mean "more interference with people's lives" then it's actually anti-authoritarian.

[dinfinity]

Like introducing the GDPR, one of the most far reaching privacy protecting laws ever?

The only authoritarian moves are the ones by radical right national parties in the member states of the EU.