In this climate, Dutch Prime Minister Peter Balkenende, still bogged down in his country’s “no” vote on the EU’s draft constitutional treaty in 2005, has been seeking to win British, Czech, and Polish support for measures to make it possible to diminish the EU’s areas of responsibility. Indeed, he may not even object to ruining the EU’s entire legislative engine by granting national parliaments a veto.
在这种情况下，荷兰总理巴尔克内德依然因为他的国家在2005年全民公决“反对”欧盟宪法条约草案而无法前进，他一直在寻求英国、捷克和波兰的支持以便可以采取措施缩减欧盟的责任范围。事实上，他也许甚至不会反对通过授予国家议会否决权来破坏欧盟的整个立法机制。