Yeah, this feels like an exploit used by many governments these days. You see the same thing in the US where the Republicans just keep filing appeals or lawsuits until they eventually get what they want. Over and over and over and over.

Governments should probably adopt some sort of "retry" limit for these things. Good luck getting that passed though I suppose.

It's because it doesn't break the political and financial careers of the people who do in the civil service and the politicians. Once it does, you'll see it is not repeated.

Prop 13 in California is an amazing example of this, known as a third rail political issue because it "kills" the politicians who attack it directly. It doesn't even approach even getting put up as a proposition or bill directly. It has a tight feedback loop because the most mobilized voting class, the olds, feel it immediately and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association mobilizes immediately also. So they go for it on the sides, for things like commercial property, or complicated to understand inheritance and so on.

So if you really want to fight back and be effective, you have to (politically) destroy the careers of those who do.

The French people did consider that, in the referendum on Maastricht. The politicians ignored the results

The French people typically elect far-right politicians to represent them at the EU level, so...

This is France pushing this onto themselves?