Out of curiosity, does the UK have a rules making bureocracy and is it elected? I guessed that any country with a long enough history has agencies and departments that do more or less what they want because they survive through different governments. I concede that the EU case is special because it's one layer more remote from citizens, by design because national governments don't want to surrender their authority to a central one. There is a big difference between Washington and Brussels but, to be fair, also between Europe and the USA. Europe is not one nation.