Forms of Government

DEMOCRACY: The United Kingdom (UK) is a democracy. A democracy is a country where the people choose their government. In the UK there are too many people to ask and too many decisions to take therefore representatives are elected to make decisions.  from http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zwvqtfr/revision

This is the form of government created and developed by the British over eight hundred years since the Magna Carta and used in most of the free countries of the world.

AUTOCRACY: government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.
from: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/autocracy

PLUTOCRACY: a government or state in which the wealthy class rules.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/plutocracy

OLIGARCHY: a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in adominant 
class or clique; government by the few. From: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/oligarchy

This is how Daniel Hannan identified the EU. This form of government is not used anywhere else in the world and is too cumbersome, with no direct lines of responsibility for any action. 

And from Wikipedia:
The EU treaties declare the EU to be based on representative democracy, and direct elections take place to the European Parliament. The Parliament, together with the Council, form the legislative arm of the EU. The Council is composed of national governments, thus representing the intergovernmental nature of the EU. Laws are proposed by the European Commission which is appointed by and accountable to the Parliament and Council although it has very few executive powers.

Note who proposes the laws: An Appointed body, not elected. 


The EU operates through a hybrid system of supranational and intergovernmental decision-making.^[17][18] The seven principal decision-making bodies—known as the institutions of the European Union—are the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, theEuropean Central Bank, and the European Court of Auditors.  from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union.

For me that it too many bodies trying to take over too much. 

In Russia, there is a constitution that protects the rights of the citizen,  and people voted for it, but I cannot find anything that says how democratic Russia is.