Van Rompuy regards EU Election as superfluous: ‘Decisions are taken elsewhere’

EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy acknowledges the lack of interest of Europeans in the EU election sure instinct of citizens. 

In an interview he said it was “actually decided” elsewhere and not in the EU Parliament. 

Such frank defamation of a supposedly democratic institution shows that the EU is in its current structure, an authoritarian backroom event – and will remain so .... http://translate.google.nl/translate