Western Europe gave up on democratic representative government when they submitted to the authoritarian EU. This is the natural consequence.
The fact is that the EU was and is the dream of the National Socialist German Workers Party— the NSDAP. Germany running from the top down a Socialist Europe, and somehow keep Communism out of it. It is all the same effort totalitarianism, and total control of people’s lives. No freedom, no choises and a surveillance State. Their dream, the dream of Statists everywhere. Which must be fought against on every level. The “tech “lords” think they run things— we can always turn things of— and become independent. Then they would call us “rich kulaks” and come to starve us like Stalin’s NKVD in the Ukraine.