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Brussels insists it only acts where member states allow it.

MCC Brussels' Deputy Research Director Philip Siegert shows that is simply untrue. For decades, EU institutions have quietly rewritten their own powers; through courts, crises, delegated acts and clever legal gymnastics, creating a system where the centre expands and national democracy shrinks.Philip Siegert sits down with John O'Brien to talk about his latest report: Empire of Law: Pushing supranationalism beyond democratic legitimacy.

This Deep Dive cuts through the mythology:
• Competence creep is not an accident — it’s a method
Courts reinterpret treaties, the Commission legislates without legislators, and the Council ducks responsibility by outsourcing real decisions to the technocracy. The result is a Brussels that governs far beyond its mandate.

• Crisis governance as a power machine
From the Eurozone meltdown to COVID and now “values enforcement,” every emergency becomes an excuse for more centralisation. Whether the policy fits the crisis is irrelevant - the answer is always “more EU.”

• Rule-of-law conditionality as political weaponry
Funds can now be withheld from governments Brussels dislikes, on the basis of vague “country recommendations” and administrative judgments that never face democratic scrutiny.

• And the warning that matters most:
If this continues, Brexit will not remain an outlier. A Union that overrides sovereignty and ignores subsidiarity is a Union that erodes its own legitimacy.

If Europe is to remain democratic, it must return to clear limits, respect for national self-government, and the principle that powers come from the member states, not despite them.


Read the report here: https://brussels.mcc.hu/uploads/defau...

00:00 – Intro: The Reflex to Centralise
03:44 – What Is Competence Creep?
05:12 – Passive vs Active Power Grabs
07:32 – Primacy and the Erosion of Sovereignty
09:00 – Brussels’ Ideology on Nationhood
15:04 – How the Troika Bypassed the Treaties

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