I already thought it was an outright dictatorship masquerading as a democracy. They don't allow you to vote on anything they know will be rejected (The accession of member States like Romainia, Bulgaria for example [which has proved a disaster]) and anything they have to let you vote for, if you reject it they just get you to vote again until you give them what they want, eg. Lisbon treaty. What's the tyopical turnout in a european MEP election, 30%? That's means ~2/3s of the population don't even bother voting. Says it all.