The European Council, which represents member states in the structures of the Union, could be given a more public character. It could then be seen, in a bicameral system, as a kind of “Chamber of Nations” within the framework of what Jacques Delors called a “federation of nation states.”
在欧盟框架内代表了各成员国的欧洲理事会，也许将被赋予更多的公共性质。那么，在一个两院制体系内，它可能被看作Jacques Delors所称的“国家联邦”框架内的某种“国家议会”。