The IEA's authors suggest a different constitutional model that is highly practical whilst soundly grounded in political theory and historical experience.
In all future discussions, those determining the content of constitutional changes should represent the member states parliaments and electorate, not the institutions of the European Union " it is on behalf of the people of Europe not the institutions of Europe that the constitution should be drafted.
There should be a significantly greater role for member states. Except where there is a genuine international interest, is