Council and Commission are textbook cases of what happens when power cannot be held accountable. They are a cesspool of murky establishment interests and rarely, if ever, act in the interests of EU citizens. Their structure is inherently tribal and ethnic-based, which should be seen as an abomination in 2016.
They are a relic of the pre-Parliament structure, when stuff got done with treaties and agreements, and should simply be dropped in favour of simple Parliamentary rule. The problem is that turkeys don't vote for Christmas, so national-government apparatchiks will never willingly renounce their power.
It's one of the many states of empasse the current EU structure finds itself stuck into, and it won't be solved by this or that state leaving.
They are a relic of the pre-Parliament structure, when stuff got done with treaties and agreements, and should simply be dropped in favour of simple Parliamentary rule. The problem is that turkeys don't vote for Christmas, so national-government apparatchiks will never willingly renounce their power.
It's one of the many states of empasse the current EU structure finds itself stuck into, and it won't be solved by this or that state leaving.