>>720716415
There are elections, but in case of the larger parties, the "parliament" is but a waste-ground for people that would cause too much damage at the national stage, if they were left in domestic offices.
Take Von der Leyen: The primary reason to get her into EU office was, that this allows her total immunity in Germany. (Something not even German executive offices offer.)
In her previous offices in Germany she (probably) committed crime after crime, but investigations are stopped as long as she is president of the EU Commission.
...and of course she (probably) continued her cleptocratic campaign in the EU with, for example, the vaccine deals.
The people have effectively no voice in who leads the EU. The last elections massively hurt the Von der Leyen-camp and gave rise to parties that work in favor of the people instead of the cleptocratic caste, but the "democratic" "Green" camp decided to join Von der Leyen in order to "save democracy" (where there is no democracy to begin with).
>>720716439
Europe has rich public broadcasters and they are "saving democracy" all day with lies and smear campaigns. (Look into German ZDF's Theveßen's take on Charlie Kirk.)
Europeans are slowly realizing and shifting, but against those massive media empires directly controlled by the political caste, it's not only difficult to get that information out there, but politicians are trying to make the spread of opinion again the publisher-employed full-time journalists' privilege (as it was originally intended when all those far-reaching rights were established), because the people apparently aren't "democratic" enough to be worthy of that right.
