> Masks have been of for a while, but as long as the EU people can't vote the EU presidency out of office, it's to no avail.

The EU is basically run by the Council, who are the national governments, all of whom are elected.

It's incredibly depressing that this keeps needing to be repeated when its been this way since the inception of the EU (with a small hiatus where we were gonna get a constitution).

The Commission can propose laws, but unless the Council (mostly) and Parliament (theoretically) agree, they won't happen.

True but they can keep pushing those laws over and over again like they're doing with chatcontrol.