Critically assess the legal accuracy of the following claims about the European Union:

(a) In effect, it is a Federal State with the ability to extend and exercise its powers against the wishes of member states. (30 marks)

(b) Its laws are passed by unelected 'eurocrats' and therefore it is an undemocratic body. (30 marks)

(c) Its Court of Justice is too powerful, its rulings undermine national courts and national parliaments (30 marks)