The president of the Commission can reject candidates as often as they want (not in theory, but in practice they do), so the member state's power to appoint someone is largely meaningless. The EU gets the kind of person it wants, every time. There is no actual power by the member states here.
The Council is a joke that won't explain its decisions, it won't even explain if there was a vote on who got to be EU President or if Germany just announced the decision was made already and then they played with their phones for the rest of the meeting.
The entire thing is literally decided by lobbying, except we have no idea who is lobbying who, when, how or what they want. All we know is that the key processes are all secret - super democratic!
> The president of the Commission can reject candidates as often as they want (not in theory, but in practice they do), so the member state's power to appoint someone is largely meaningless.
The member states effectively decide who is the president of the commission. A candidate can't go for vote to the parliament without their approval first (72% majority required).
Who is which countries commissionaire and gets what seat is very much part of the whole process of deciding who is going to be the president.
And as the commissioners require the parliaments approval too that is where they usually get shot down instead of being rejected by the president of the commission (can't agree on these beforehand with the parliament)
> it won't even explain if there was a vote on who got to be EU President
EU does not have a president and will not get one without a new treaty to replace the Treaty of Lisbon and is not something the Commission would ever get to decide on (this is the kind of foundational EU treaties that has to be signed by all member states)
> The Council is a joke that won't explain its decisions
Just like any government it mainly explains itself to the people who voted it into power. In this case the governments of the member states / council and to some extent the parliament.
The Council is a joke that won't explain its decisions, it won't even explain if there was a vote on who got to be EU President or if Germany just announced the decision was made already and then they played with their phones for the rest of the meeting.
The entire thing is literally decided by lobbying, except we have no idea who is lobbying who, when, how or what they want. All we know is that the key processes are all secret - super democratic!