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This is the EU Commision: they're nominated following backroom deals between EU national governments behind closed doors (which is how one ends up with, as head of the Commission, a profoundly incompetent German ex-Defense Minister who left her ministerial post under a dark cloud), and only members other than the head of the commission are voted in the EU Parliament and it's only a confirmation vote (take it or leave it) not an actual vote selecting who gets the post.

Unsurprisingly, A LOT of EU Commissioners "strangelly" end up after they leave the Commission in highly paid non-executive board memberships or with gold plated consultancy gigs in companies in Industries which they had oversight over or benefitted when they were commissioners.

At least the EU Parliament is elected, using Proportional Voting even.

The EU Commission is not Democratic in any way form or shape, so unsurprisingly it's the most rotten part of the EU structures.