Don’t be salty because we’ve got a working democracy ¯\(ツ)/¯ sure, it isn’t perfect, but it’s not all about the money here. Being a politician on that level already pays quite nicely without being bought by a company or two. And voters have a lot of power over who gets into the EU parliament, so a lot of them really do represent the common folks.

They are doing it to help consumers and protect the environment by forcing modularity and recyclable components.