Would it be correct to compare the EU's autocratic pronouncements to Presidential executive orders in the US? In the sense that they can pass whatever they want with little feedback but then the courts can tear them apart?
there are multiple ways to make EU law, there are regulations (that apply directly) and directives that member states need to implement (basically ratify)
the Commission proposed something and then the Council votes on it and then there's the EP which votes on it
this one is a regulation proposal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Co...
the treaties have some areas that are under "Special legislative procedures" where the EP cannot propose amendments, but still has consent power, but in some cases like internal market exemptions and competition law only consultation right
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/decision-makin...
It's something a Nazi regime would implement today had it existed.
There is no one in the EU that would tell those people are you fkin insane and give them a sack?
It’s surprising how quickly you have forgotten CISPA, EARN IT, etc - which were much more invasive proposals than chat control (slurping of all data of everyone, not just client side scanning for csam).
Of course, now you just cram unrelated shit into “big beautiful bills”, speed it through with minimal oversight using loopholes, and hope no one will notice. Has no one told you how fkin insane that is?
there is at least one very bad quasi-dictatorship in the EU, Hungary, where "protecting the children" is used as the perfect propaganda slogen, but when it comes to holding abusers accountable, things are 240% farcical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Nov%C3%A1k_presidentia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G%C3%A1bor_Kaleta...
and of course Hungary supports this. who would have thought.
Unlike the president the EU commission are unelected and the commission is the only branch of government which can propose laws, however they can't force anything through in the same way the US president can with an executive order (it must go through parliament).
I guess it's good/bad, but in different ways to the US. It's bad in the sense EU citizens can't elect the people proposing their laws, but it's good in the sense that the commission can't just force things through without approval from the parliament which consists of MEPs which europeans elect.
As far as I'm aware the courts function in more or less the same way. Here in the UK parliament is sovereign and therefore can overrule any court decision with new law. This isn't true for the EU and I believe it also isn't true in the US.
The EU is founded on the pooled sovereignty of the member states (unlike in the US, where the reverse is the case). The Council represents those member states (each has a seat), and so holds this pooled sovereignty.
The EC can’t pass anything.