> > France, just as all the EU countries [..] > [..] is just as sovereign as the UK. In theory, perhaps. In practice, certainly not. The EU has an inner ten

> > France, just as all the EU countries [..] > [..] is just as sovereign as the UK. In theory, perhaps. In practice, certainly not. The EU has an inner tension between the nominal "principle of subsidiarity"[0] enshrined in the 1992 treaty and the "more Europe" approach which so many EU politicians propose as the solution for any and every problem. The 1957 Treaties of Rome talked about about "an ever-closer Union", it's not clear exactly what was meant by that...[1] > It does not make French courts subservient to it, as it is outside the French legal system. The short version is that EU directives take priority over French [statue] law: [2] "Thus, by the middle of the nineties, all French courts embraced EU law’s superiority over French law [..] the questions that remained unanswered were whether EU law was superior to the French Constitution?" [0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/7/the-principle-of-subsidiarity https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/7/the-pri... [1] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2016/04/26/what-is-an-ever-closer-union/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2016/04/26/what-is-an-ever-cl... [2] https://cesran.org/the-primacy-of-eu-law-over-french-law-eu-law-takes-precedence-over-national-law.html https://cesran.org/the-primacy-of-eu-law-over-french-law-eu-...