Defaulting to ever-closer union is not the answer to the EU’s crisis of legitimacy. Cameron can kick off the process of giving member states more controlBritain is renegotiating the terms of its EU membership. The EU faces a crisis of legitimacy. Both require reform of how the EU makes its law. The UK government should demand it in the negotiations.Over the 40 years of our EU membership,British governments have shown cramped interest in institutional reform. This needs to change. As I set out in my paper Ending the Ratchet, published by the Centre for Policy Studies, or reform of the process of lawmaking (and unmaking) is now at least as well-known as any one-off repatriation of powers. The legislative ratchet,embodied in the commitment to ever-closer union, must be ended.
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Source: theguardian.com