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Originally Posted by MargaretR
I wrote to an MEP a few months ago and never got a reply.
From what I understand about how the EU parliament works, it is the non-elected beaurocrats who make the rules and the MEPs just vote on whether to accept them.
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Indeed you're right. Which means when you 'vote' in the European elections, you are voting for a candidate that can have no mandate. They cannot set out a stall and say, 'this is what we will do in Europe', as they are not the initiators of legislation.