Nevertheless, fiscal rules and common banking supervision are still regarded in many quarters as an illegitimate encroachment on member states’ sovereignty. After all, the European Union has avoided becoming a focus of heated contestation precisely because it never got much of a share of what Europeans produced (its budget, at just over 1% of the EU’s GDP, has barely changed in relative terms for the past 40 years).
然而，财政规章以及通用的银行监管仍在许多地方被视为对成员国主权的非法侵犯。毕竟欧盟之所以避免了成为激烈争论的焦点就是因为它从来没能占据多少欧洲人的生产成果（它的预算仅仅超过欧盟GDP的1%，这在过去40年内几乎没有什么变化）。政治和预算都是由欧盟成员国自己处理的。