If the EU is to survive, it needs to be able to adapt, and that means making it easy for powers to be taken away from it and for countries to pick and choose the areas in which they want to co-operate and where they want to retain control.
The driving force behind the EU is the move to full political and economic union.
Something that\’s not really compatible with the surrendering of powers now, is it? Which is why it won\’t happen.