但如果这也算解决方案的话，那就难以解释为什么欧洲议会的影响力和联合决策权在1979年第一次选举之后不断扩大，但投票率却在那次选举的63%高点上逐步下降的矛盾现实了。
But if this was the solution, then we would not have had steadily declining turnouts since the high point of 63%, at the first elections to the European Parliament in 1979. After all, since then the EP’s influence and powers of joint decision-making have grown constantly.