THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT OF THE EU

• EP is subservient to the Commission & the Council of Ministers and both are unelected.
• Meetings of the Council of Ministers and the Commissioners are closed to the public.
• Decisions by the Council of Ministers are final, with no oversight by the EU citizenry.
• National legislatures do not have direct input into the decisions of the Commission.
• Few EU citizens know how to or care to navigate the EU bureaucracy.
• Voter turnout in EU elections has been decreasing.
• Popular support indicators: Eurobarometer 1 2 3