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Americans probably don’t know the European Commission is an unelected executive body of the European Union, that also has the sole authority to propose legislation for the EU. The EU ‘parliament’ merely ratifies or rejects things. So the Commission proposes the rules, and enforces them, and reviews objections. Judge jury and executioner. The commissioners themselves are appointed by the member states. Below them is a ‘civil service’ of roughly 30,000 bureaucrats who do things like suggest fines on companies like X. Citizens of the various EU countries have no direct control over what the Commission does. They can’t vote them out, or object to what they do. A person in Madrid or Paris or Berlin or Warsaw is powerless. The Commission is funded from the coffers of the member states, but doesn’t answer to the taxpayers. The Commission has a large incentive to fine American companies like X because those revenues supplement whatever they receive from the member states. It’s free money for them to boost their authority and lifestyle in Brussels. In the USA we complain correctly about the ‘deep state.’ But they’ve got it much worse in Europe. Add to the lack of accountability to citizens of EU countries the fact that Eurocrats work with American NGOs and outfits funded by people like Soros - and the picture is even darker. The EU bureaucrats are part of a transnational agenda that isn’t required to be concerned about the interests of EU citizens.