SNP MEP Alyn Smith has written to the EU Commission calling for an investigation into the process through which the UK Government awarded three ferry contracts worth more than £107.7 million.

Efforts by British negotiators to win changes to Theresa May’s Brexit deal are going badly, after talks in Brussels broke up without any progress to report and the EU Commission warned that “no solution” is in sight.

Much of the UK’s referendum debate has focused on the extent to which EU decision-making is democratic, with the European Commission a source of particular criticism from leave campaigners on the basis that it is unelected.

Spokesman says it is ‘pretty obvious’ border controls would be needed in this scenario

The EU is regularly accused from suffering a ‘democratic deficit’. In particular, it is often asserted that all EU decisions are made by the EU Commission – who are ‘unelected bureaucrats’. As we demonstrate in this post, this criticism is clearly invalid.