I applaud you for being someone who finally talks about European Union institutions with apt knowledge of them, unlike even most news providers.
The structure of the Union is grim. I wish it was different, but how to change it now? It would have to be the Commission itself that suddenly decides that most of its powers need to be delegated to the Parliament.
It can't be changed, the foundations of the EU are left-ideological from the start as observed by many of the people who set it up. The only way forward is for every country to exit.
I sadly agree with what you wrote, but on this point
> The EU Parliament is like that: the death of ambition, full of apathetic losers who drift into politics without any real idea of why they're there
I have to disagree. There are many (or, "at least a few I know personally"? [1]) people who sit in the Parliament with a real intention of making good. Their power is simply null, though.
1. David Sassoli (deceased, ex president), Guy Verhofstadt (Renew), Patrick Breyer (Pirates), to name a few I follow.
I only know the name Verhofstadt but he's a hard-core federalist, no? Sure, people who define good as the EU taking everything over can genuinely view their "work" as doing good, but it's the sort of thing I meant by cheerleading. The Commission needs no encouragement and would be doing exactly the same things regardless of whether Verhofstadt existed or not.
> I cannot understand why the European Commission wants to reduce our reliance on FAANG services, and at the same time they make Google Play a de facto standard
You'll be surprised, most of the time it's simple ignorance: the people making decisions don't know everything about everything. Hence democracy comes to rescue.
But the way the European Commission takes decisions is anti-democratic (secret draft documents, undisclosed lobbying, overlooking the role of the Parliament…)
> The Parliament is a joke. And you can partially blame the member countries who really do not send their best there
The European Parliament is not made of countries, nor it is meant to represent national interests.
National governments don't "send their best there", because it is the doing of each party in each nation. Sometimes parties that are represented in the EU Parliament are not represented in a member country's parliament.
