It's always been this way. Here's an article from 2017 complaining about "secret law making taking over Brussels": https://euobserver.com/institutional/136630

It's always been this way. Here's an article from 2017 complaining about "secret law making taking over Brussels": https://euobserver.com/institutional/136630 https://euobserver.com/institutional/136630 Jean-Claude Junker, despite his flaws, was one of the most honest heads of the EU Commission. He had this to say on the matter of secret lawmaking in 2011: "I'm ready to be insulted as insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious. I am for secret, dark debates." ... and in 2007 ... "Britain is different. Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?" Other EU leaders said similar things at the time (in the context of the Lisbon Treaty): “Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly” … “All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.” (Valéry Giscard d’Estaing) “They decided that the document should be unreadable. If it is unreadable, it is not constitutional, that was the sort of perception… Should you succeed in understanding it at first sight there might be some reason for a referendum, because it would mean that there is something new.” (Giuliano Amato)