This paper argues that the EU legislative process should be used for taking all decisions at European level that matter, banning the various backroads of European decision-making (competence creep) that are currently legal but not legitimate. This is a silver bullet, resolving at once a range of seemingly disparate but intimately connected legitimacy problems across all areas of EU activity, that ultimately result from an incorrectly calibrated state of transnational constitutional democracy at EU level, where certain aspects are over-constitutionalised while others remain fundamentally under-constitutionalised. This is therefore the key transversal issue that the Conference on the Future of Europe and its ensuing changes should address. The paper makes various concrete proposals to this effect, including for a general legislative competence.

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从偷偷摸摸到大步前进：打击能力蔓延和巩固欧盟立法程序

本文认为，欧盟立法程序应用于在欧洲层面做出所有重要的决定，禁止目前合法但不合法的欧洲决策（能力蔓延）的各种倒退。这是一个灵丹妙药，立即解决了欧盟活动所有领域中一系列看似不同但密切相关的合法性问题，这些问题最终是由于欧盟层面的跨国宪政民主国家校准不当造成的，其中某些方面被过度宪法化，而其他人从根本上仍然未达到宪法规定。因此，这是欧洲未来会议及其后续变革应解决的关键横向问题。该文件为此提出了各种具体的建议，包括一般立法权限。