Re:Poland′s top court rules against primacy of EU law
by chuckee on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:51PM
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> They can quit whenever they want.
At a steep economic cost. Should the EU be using its economic clout to meddle in the internal affairs of member states?
> wanting in historical accuracy.
I was making a suggestion ("why can't X be Y"), not a statement about current or historical fact. That things are or were a certain way, does not mean they should continue to be so.
Re:Poland′s top court rules against primacy of EU law
by rad_gruchalski on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:50PM
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Their union, their rules.
No, EU Member States are sovereign. They can quit whenever they want. Unlike say Texas in the USA.
> Why can't the EU be merely a trade and foreign policy union - why does it have to spread into every area?
This viewpoint, common with Brexiters, is completely wanting in historical accuracy.
The EU and its legal (edit: and de-facto) predecessors have always been political. The European Coal and Steel Community was founded in 1951 to “make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible”. Economic integration was just a means to an end, namely political integration.