Design

I am beginning to think that Brexit - and now the possibility of Frexit
with Marine Le Pen - may have more to do with EU design features than
with electoral discontent. Below, the electoral maps for the European
Parliament for both England and France. Each country is free to elect
its representatives as it sees fit, but both England and France have created
regions thar are not those of elections to the home Parliament. And
they consult the constitutents that have elected them. In effect, the
country has two governments!!

Odder still, European Parlimentarians belong to European Parties and
working coallitions, including a eurosceptic one. National representatives
all attend European Commission gatherings as true overseers - or not at all,
as Britain, currently - but European Parlimentarians are allowed all manner of
'seditious' positions on Europe. An inevitable stage, in a process of unification,
many might think. In effect, perhaps a deadly design virus to the institution itself.

There does seem to be a working logic to threatening withdrawl in a debate within
the EU, but surely this can never be binding one.

https://www.europarltv.europa.eu/programme/others/how-it-works-the-european-parliament