A general note I could have added in my first reply (when I stated I didn't expect any better). I think to some extent we are facing the institutional problems of the EU (the balance [that word again...] aand roles of the three branches of the EU), not simply ideological biases and fake commitment to consulting the public.

The Commission is in practice not entirely free in making policy. It is bound by stuff agreed on by the Council. That in this questionnaire the aim is for a common 'free' makret, and alternatives aren't even asked about, also reflects that the Commission is obliged to push that damned "Lisbon process".

I emphasize this is only an observation. It doesn't change anything on the need to criticise this practise.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}