>> The problem with satirical articles like that is that they could end just as easily end with "by order of the U.K. government.  I have no more say over edicts coming from one than I do the other...

I hope you do not really believe that you have "no more say over edicts coming from" the elected UK government than from the unelected European Union.

>> EU policies suffer to an alarming degree from a lack of democracy... Germany's state of parliamentary democracy is under threat from the European Union, which is slowly taking away all the national parliament's powers, the country's ex-president said...

https://euobserver.com/institutional/23250