The European commission are appointed by the Council of the EU which is composed by elected individual member countries' heads of government. Commissioners also need to be individually approved by the European Parliament which is directly elected.

Representative democracy is democracy. Basically all nation level democratic governments are representative democracies.

Being a cynic doesn't make you look clever.

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verisimi an hour ago | parent [-]

Do you think you influence policy too?

Do you think I'm being cynical or realistic if I say I don't think I influence any political decisions?

	▲	okanat an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		EU has citizenship initiatives. Citizens can propose changes to the law and the parliament has to discuss it. Stop Killing Games movement actually got a foothold. EU as every healthy democracy has also non-elected experts (just like judiciary side) in its organs who can create law proposals. That's how we got USB-C and GDPR.
	▲	ginko an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I do think you're cynical and wrong if you think you can't influence any political decisions on the EU level.