Bingo, the EU is optimised to _not_ do things against the will of member states, both at the EU government and national government level.
Many things are proposed, very few make it through, meaning the number of people you have to influence has to be extremely tactical or total.
You can see this with the proposal to stop moving the EU parliament and commission to Strasbourg every year (just to move it back again), France says no, therefore it can't happen.
Same is true with sanctions against .pl for freedom of the press violations, Hungary says no and that's all it takes for nothing to happen.
Many things are proposed, very few make it through, meaning the number of people you have to influence has to be extremely tactical or total.
You can see this with the proposal to stop moving the EU parliament and commission to Strasbourg every year (just to move it back again), France says no, therefore it can't happen.
Same is true with sanctions against .pl for freedom of the press violations, Hungary says no and that's all it takes for nothing to happen.