As EU citizens we lack a progressive uniform electoral code, the choice of the leader for our government and its course.

We don’t even know who the candidates are for the Commission Presidency and the members of the Commission are going to be nominated by the governments of the member states regardless of our vote.

In many (most?) EU countries closed lists mean that citizens have no real choice as to who become elected MEPs.

The European Parliament has become more important, but the crucial questions about the future of Europe and the decisive policy areas are outside its reach, subject to unanimity by 27 national governments and 27 national ratification procedures.

As long as the present structures are preserved, it is basically impossible to make the EU comprehensible or engaging for its citizens.

Against the background of these fundamental flaws, your efforts to raise interest for the European Parliament and the upcoming European elections are still worthwhile and seem to be improving.

Websites and inviting comments are positive signs.

During the last four weeks I have posted daily on the European Parliament and assessed the basic information available for more seriously inclined readers (like teachers and students) about the internal workings of the EP.

On this front, there is a lot to do, but it takes little more than good will to open up to the citizens.