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Funny you mention those.

The so-called “citizen’s initiative” in Article 11’s fourth paragraph is a real joke, and shows where the power lies (a million people petition the unelected Commission to write a law for them; not that the Commission has ever acted when so petitioned; it also gives the EU government a handy list of dissidents if the petition is against the EU agenda).

Article 13 specifically names the European Central Bank as an institution of the EU. Imagine if way back in 1789, the Federal Reserve was named as an institution of the USA? but this redounds to something in the Communist Manifesto:

Centralization of credit in the hands of the state by means of a national bank with state credit and an exclusive monopoly.

That of course is the fifth plank of communism. And why does the EU have a separate “court of auditors”? Sounds like yet another unaccountable politburo to me.

Article 12 is worth a mention here, because it outlines just how the EU expects national parliaments to be subservient:

National Parliaments contribute actively to the good functioning of the Union:

through being informed by the institutions of the Union and having draft legislative acts of the Union forwarded to them in accordance with the Protocol on the role of national Parliaments in the European Union;

by seeing to it that the principle of subsidiarity is respected in accordance with the procedures provided for in the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;

by taking part, within the framework of the area of freedom, security and justice, in the evaluation mechanisms for the implementation of the Union policies in that area, in accordance with Article 70 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and through being involved in the political monitoring of Europol and the evaluation of Eurojust's activities in accordance with Articles 88 and 85 of that Treaty

by taking part in the revision procedures of the Treaties, in accordance with Article 48 of this Treaty;

by being notified of applications for accession to the Union, in accordance with Article 49 of this Treaty;

by taking part in the inter-parliamentary cooperation between national Parliaments and with the European Parliament, in accordance with the Protocol on the role of national Parliaments in the European Union.

Now imagine the US Constitution making similar demands upon the states? There is a reason why we have the Tenth Amendment. The Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union makes it plain that all of the policies that make a state sovereign are stripped away from any member state of the EU (save one).