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Brussels insists it only acts where member states allow it.

MCC Brussel's Deputy Research Director Philip Siegert shows that is simply untrue. h exists down with John O'Brien to talk about his latest report: Empire of Law: Pushing supranationalism beyond democratic legitimacy.

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.

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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