I agree with you, and therefore think change has to come from major crises.

"Die Unterdrückung der Freiheit provoziert schnell Widerstand. Die Ausbeutung der Freiheit dagegen nicht."

We need to stop the EU from basing all its decisions on making a couple of polls and interpreting the results into something the Commission likes! This is how the Commission does it, even when a referendum rejects it, as Margot Wallström puts it after the referendum in Ireland 2008.