The basics of European democracy as I see it is that the people has the right to vote for whoever they want in charge and if that does not work out they vote for changes even so often as it is needed.
However recent elections in Greece, in France shows more and more tendencies that the peoples voice means nothing to the bureacracy and lobbyists of the EU who will stop at no means to force their desired politic trougth. We just got a new monetary treaty that has so far seen no elections, althougth a single country Ireland will ask it's people as in accordance to their constitution, and if the people vote no the EU will make them vote again and again until it becomes yes just like with the Lissabon treaty.
The monetary treaty enforces a specific ecconomically politic no matter if the governement in a country is red, blue, black or gray, from now on and until no set end date, yet this treaty is a continuation of the failed monetary politic of the past decade and written by the same people who was responsible for the banking crisis in the first place.
The directly elected parlament can not suggest laws, only the commission that is to say the bureaucrats and lobbyists have that right, and the system is so confusing that hardly a lot of the elected parlament members knows who is really makeing the suggestions, in addition no small or mid sized country has the oppotunity to veto anything comming from the European Union anymore.
So let's get back tho the topic, the above is of course my point of view of the EU, how did it become so sidetracked and messed up democracy and why are the EU politicians trying to force feed it's member states with EU nationalism by hijacking national symbols of the diffrent countries and use them directly as EU symbols or in combination with EU symbols, why does EU try to write a common European history that never once existed after the fall of the Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire?