So no, "even closer union" is not something that most europeans want, especially not in the current climate of corruption and fuckups by the commission.
Your problem is with the sovereign democratically elected parliament who ignored their own referendum.
https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/scrutins/jo0083.asp
(Same in NL)
Is that why the EU MEP can't propose laws?
Is that why the Commission can ignore the MEP's votes?
Also, many European governments have not been elected by people voting for them but by people voting against their opponent. Hardly a vote of confidence.
> An extra vote on top of the election was always foolish.
Yes, so foolish to ask people their opinion. If only we could have one strong man or woman decide everything.
It's not some outside power. It's people our governments send there. And it's exactly the same amount of democratic as a ministership is.
> Yes, so foolish to ask people their opinion.
The average voter doesn't know everything about everything. That's the whole point of representative democracy, to elect a representative to deal with the intricacies of governance. That's how most democratic countries in the world are structured.
MEPs have the same power to put laws through s back benchers in the Westminster system. They have the same power to evict the executive as the house does in America.
