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> But Ylva stood by her claim. She came back to the same argument over and over again. She avoided answering the questions (she obviously didn’t understand how the technology worked) but instead turned the direction of the discussion, saying, for example, that a court order would be required to carry out scanning, which in itself was deliberately misleading.

Is there currently a way for us, EU citizens, to vote those Brussels ghouls out of power? No, or at least none that I know of. Is this how a democracy is supposed to work? Certainly not.

Which is to say that events like this one should make most of the people see that the EU and the European Commission are certainly not democratic and they certainly do not represent the European electorate, because, as a matter of fact, the European electorate has no power over those people. But the propaganda still coming from those circles is too powerful, so, here we are.



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