The current IGC, consistent with the legal tradition of the EU, also focuses on formal-legal aspects such as the composition of the Commission, the weighting of votes in the Council and the extension of majority voting. On the one hand , such changes can be the result of a political community making decisions and debating the challenges and opportunities they face, and the principles, rules and procedures by which they want to live. From this perspective, political leadership includes affecting how Europeans come to think about what constitutes unity or disunity, as well as the reasons for establishing and changing political borders, common purposes and projects, institutions and forms of governance. The EU also has numerous arenas for interaction, argumentation, problem solving and conflict resolution, and the gaining of experience through interaction may create habits of working together, friendship, group loyalties and knowledge about others. These may create convergence, mutual confidence and positive trust spirals.
Political gardeners can use such arenas to push the system in a consistent direction.
They may stabilise attention, develop a shared vocabulary, shared interpretations of experience, criteria of assessment and aspiration levels, and may also improve institutional adaptability. Stabilise attention . Fischer has focused attention on major institutional reform, but he also emphasises the importance of different time scales. From this time perspective, there are many possible future distractions. Comprehensive change in institutions and identities may take decades or generations, and because large scale reforms are weakly institutionalised, they usually attract a variety of issues, often loosely coupled to the reform itself.