But one of the things that makes the EU violate the principle of subsidiarity is that that the national governments use the EU to push legislation it would have problem passing at home and then blaming EU for it. See for example the debate in Sweden about the implementation of the Data storage directive, you rarely heard it mentioned that it was Sweden - or more precisely justive minister Bodström - that initiated it. It was just "Brussels makes us do it". I think it is important to recognise that the Council is a federal chamber, after all the liberum veto did not make Poland an assortment of principalities just a highly dysfunctional state.

So without reform there will be no refocusing.

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