I am much for 3-strikes here.
The EU doesn’t have a constitution [1], simply enabling treaties [2].
The solution would be in ratifying a constitution.
> am much for 3-strikes here
Careful. A party in power will seek to nullify issues by putting forward and then defeating sham bills.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Consti...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties_of_the_European_Uni...
Presumably the three strikes would be for the politicians, e.g. if you have voted in favor of three bills that courts have subsequently found unconstitutional, you're barred from holding office.
Would you look at that, everyone who was passing court reform is now barred from office.
You’re looking for a cheat code to effort in government. It doesn’t exist. Power is ephemeral. The person in power is always more powerful than the person who just had it, almost by definition.
Checks are useful if people mostly vote right, but occasionally make mistakes. If you double down on the mistakes, you get the situation that it would be undemocratic for some rules made 100 years ago to stand in the way of what the majority of the population wants today.
Plus, who knows what are the "interests of the populace". Who can decide that? If the populace votes one way, you saying "they're voting against their interests so they should be prevented from getting what they want" is functionally equivalent to saying "what I want should be done and what others want should not, even if I am in a minority". I know it does not feel that way to you, but try to see it from the perspective of someone who disagrees with you.
In a democracy, the only possible arbiter of what should happen is the majority. Anything else is the tyranny you decry.