Sorry, no country in the EU can claim any semblance of Democratic rule any longer. When some politico in Brussels can tell an Irish farmer how to package his potatoes, when that Irish farmer nor anyone else in Ireland has voted for that politico, you have something other than representative democracy. The fact now is the people who head the EU were not voted by anyone other than other politicians like themselves, and thus they are completely unaccountable for their decisions. It works like this: You vote for your local politico, who then votes for the ruling Government and leader (in a Parliamentary system). That Government or leader then appoints other politicos to go the EU to then agree with the politicos in other countries to pass regulations that effect you personally. You don't like those decisions. Can you vote out those who made the rules? No. You can only vote out your local politico who had nothing to do with those rules. That is NOT my idea of democracy at least. At best it is politicocracy. A government of politicians for politicians.