Mange europæiske regeringsledere har i de forløbne år gjort deres befolkning opmærksom på, at Den Europæiske Union får for stor magt, er for bureaukratisk og fjerner for megen national suverænitet.
Over the past few years, many European government leaders have presented their own people with the view that the European Union is becoming too powerful and too bureaucratic and is taking away too much national sovereignty.