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Originally Posted by RobertDDL
Well, though I wish it were, the European Commission...
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You seem to have come adrift if you are responding to my claim; I referred specifically to the European Council, not to the Commission. Furthermore, the Commission, that you refer to, is the executive of the Union running its day to day business functions (the "back office" so to speak) and proposing legislation (as can some others); it is not part of the legislature that enables legislation.
The Legislature comprises the Parliament and the Council (the latter being that to which I referred). For those not already bored out of their minds there is list of the Governing Parties representing each state in the Council on the Council's Wiki page, for example.
For those interested in further painful self-flagellation there is also a fleet of Wiki (and other) web pages on the many and various institutions and agencies of the EU the entanglement of which defies easy sorting out unless much mental gymnastics is applied. All good socialist complication and over-governance stuff confusticated in order to centralise power. No wonder there is so little participation from voters in electing the Parliament (voter turnout is now under 50%
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Really, is off topic so no more from me on that.