You can't restrain the power of the Council. The Council is the member states. What you're proposing would take power away from the member states and hand it to, who? People already think the EU is undemocratic, imagine after that.

The main problem is that people still do not understand how the EU works. They don't understand that almost everything comes from the direction the member states push from the Council.

And in fact, I think the member states like it that way, or why else wouldn't they educate people more?