Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton given top EU jobs, did I miss the election?
Where do you find a problem with the degree of democracy that is available in the EU to the people and its representatives, if you want to keep sovereignty in your own country? Democracy in the EU has to be different, if you do not want to give up the sovereignty of each individual country. In each member state, people elect parties who determine who the Prime minister will be. Once the election is won, the cabinet is formed and that cabinet has all the executive powers over their territory. The EU can not work that way, because then you would not have individual governments in each member state anymore, and there has never been an intention or initiative to change that. Therefore, the individual governments form the European Council, whose president rotated in the past every 6 months according to a preset schedule. It is the main decision-making institution. It decides on what laws will be implemented. All 27 member states have a vote. The President of the European Council is a positi
