Quote Originally Posted by eisenherz View Post
in my opinion - despite some shortcomings - the level of democracy in most European countries is still head and shoulders above most other places around the world.
i would hardly call it an 'undemocratic monster'.
the consistant level of reasonably free and fair elections and a low-level corruption justice system as we have in most EU countries just does not exist elsewhere (save for very few exceptions like maybe Canada, New Zealand, Japan); certainly hardly anyone in Africa comes close and not many in far or near east, or for that matter South or Middle America.
First i think you confuse EU commissons and european national electoral systems.

Second, even european national legislature is not as democratic as it appears in mass media (which mostly form the opinions). I personally had to deal with austrian law and it appeared to be much more stupid and undemocratic than "totalitarian" USSR law.