The sovereignty strand of the renegotiation of the UK’s position in the EU was always likely to raise challenges. This is, in part, because ‘sovereignty’ itself is a contested idea: it can mean different things to different people in different contexts, and may raise different considerations depending on the perspective from which it is confronted. This is also, however, a consequence of the varied nature of the demands which the government associated with sovereignty in its negotiations with the President of the European Council and the governments of fellow EU Member States over the terms of the UK’s future membership.
The two most significant components of the sovereignty ‘basket’ – reframing Treaty claims regarding the UK’s commitment to ‘ever closer union’, and the introduction of ‘red card’ veto powers exercisable by a group of national parliaments – engage with the notion of sovereignty in quite different ways, if at all…
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