Currently, [the EU unanimity rules] ensure that in sensitive policy areas... every EU member state has a veto right. The European Commission was never meant to have any power beyond what its EU member states granted it. Even former high-ranking officials from the institutions of the European Union are beginning to speak out against the undemocratic regime of the unelected, untransparent, unaccountable European Commission -- especially under its senior bureaucrat, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Even former high-ranking officials from the institutions of the European Union are beginning to speak out against the undemocratic regime of the unelected, untransparent, unaccountable European Commission -- especially under its senior bureaucrat, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Von der Leyen -- still under investigation for alleged wrongdoing in the acquisition of COVID-19 vaccines in the European Union, "Pfizergate" -- would reportedly like even more power.