Online surveys are a horrible idea for this kind of information gathering. You have effectively zero idea if the respondents are even in the EU. All it takes is a VPN subscription to completely trash an online survey of this nature.
Source: I've supported some of the European Union activities.
It skews the demographic towards people who spend alot of time online and like to do surveys. Most working people won't have the time or even know it's there. They might as well set policy by which memes get the most likes.
how you do think online voting is done? you really think a simple VPN is enough?
oh, and btw.. I send my tax statement online. let's hope the russians don't have a VPN connection to Switzerland :)
"The European Parliament may approve or reject a legislative proposal, or propose amendments to it. The Council is not legally obliged to take account of Parliament’s opinion but in line with the case-law of the Court of Justice, it must not take a decision without having received it"
[1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/powers-and...
According to the page, the consultation procedure "is applicable in a limited number of legislative areas, such as internal market exemptions and competition law".
A dearth of legislative vetoes: Why the Council and Parliament have been reluctant to veto Commission legislation http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/10/25/a-dearth-of-leg...
Legislative Scrutiny? The Political Economy and Practice of Legislative Vetoes in the European Union https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcms.12252