The EU always sounds schizophrenic when you call each of its individual parts "the EU". These proposals are proposed every year and never accepted.
Most legislative bodies make a lot of legislature that keeps things away from people, like GDPR. That's "authoritarian" if by "authoritarian" you mean "more legislation". If by "authoritarian" you mean "more interference with people's lives" then it's actually anti-authoritarian.
The only authoritarian moves are the ones by radical right national parties in the member states of the EU.