> Where the EU commission meet with the game industry privately in EU before the decision on the Stop Destroying Video games Initiative
The experts they choose can just be anyone with a bit of authority whom the bureaucrats can find to support what they already want to do. Plus lots of paid expert consultants to make plans after the policy is enacted who know to tell them what they want to hear.
It's similar to the US media when they bring expert talking heads on their shows (academics, ex-military, etc). They come prepackaged with views the network's want.
The EU has plenty of deficiencies, but calling it a dictatorship is wildly inaccurate.
Using the UK as bad example, which it is, does not excuse the EU being bad too (or rather here, the EU commission).
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