My dearly beloved ham sandwich, this is a meme and not a dissertation. You seem to be the only person here taking it this seriously – I doubt folks walked away from this meme completely convinced there's now an epidemic of raccoons breaking into Cybertrucks
It is. europa.eu is one of the EU's domains, the ec subdomain for that is the EU Commission's, and the eci subdomain under that is for the European Citizens' Initiative (looks like just the petitions themselves are under that domain and the public index is under https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu for whatever reason)
Yeah that definitely sounds exhausting. I've had a few chances to work with some absolutely exceptional people who I could trust would do their job to the best of their ability, and then some… well, less than exceptional people who really needed constant hand-holding up to the point of me having to read error messages for them ("what does the error message say? Oh you didn't read it? Well, do the thing again so you get a new one. Ok so it says that the foo failed to flerb: have you tried checking the foo? No? Well, maybe try that and see where it gets you"), and I definitely know which one I preferred.
(also, I fucking hate it when people censor the naughty evil words just by covering one letter. Everybody knows what that word is you numpties, either cover the whole thing or don't do it)