Could instead be like the US where citizens aren't even allowed to read parts of the spying laws that apply to them. The endgame being to surreptitiously bug every device and application with local scanning; changes in ToS that allow this invasion are helpfully conflated with the same language a corpo would use if they wanted to train models on your content.

The documents for chat control got leaked by the press. Nothing was released by the EU.

Source?

How do EU rules not influence the countries which are member states?

I would certainly hope they do, it'd be entirely pointless if it didn't.

Doesn't change that it's not a country.

Practically, it may as well be.

Common military in practice, common currency, common laws, common courts and highest authority, common passport rules, etc.

But the rules the EU makes impact the country I live in.

The EU does not need to be a country for their rules to have impacts on countries. I think this is pretty self explanatory though?

This is awkward. I think I misinterpreted your initial comment after rereading it just now. I must've been quiet dumb unless you edited it earlier.

My initial comment doesn't really make sense in this context