The Supreme Soviet and National People’s Congress also had power to “approve or disapprove laws”; the process is called rubber-stamping. If the vote was to disapprove, the Politburo came back with the same law under different words, just like the Commission does.
A parliament that cannot write laws is a toy parliament. I am not even partially wrong here.
The EU has a government and is therefore a country. Would anyone say that the USSR was not a country and acted so? It acts in the name of the EU, not of any of its member states (even though it’s conducting the agenda of one member state in particular—hint: it’s the same country where the central bank for the euro is). The Parliament does not have to take the power of national leaders, because the Commission (whose members have to swear a loyalty of allegiance to the EU against their loyalty to their home member state) does that instead.
BTW, what is the purpose of your hijacking a thread about Northern Ireland?
Yet the Supreme Soviet didn’t have the ability to put the executive in power and the Executive had the ability to put up laws without proposal from the Supreme Soviet
The parliament of a confederation is necessarily different from one of a country. And the parliament is one of the two bodies who can tell the EU commission to prepare laws. the commission can’t propose a law on its own.
The EU technically doesn’t have a government - it has governing structures, but explicitly not a government