> The European Union isn’t sovereign. It likes to pretend it is, but it isn’t.
I'm going to assume you're misinterpreting rather than trying to be disingenuous, but I was obviously referencing the nations Ireland signed the series of treaties starting with the Treaty of Lisbon (which Ireland signed in 2009).
France, Germany, etc. are perfectly within their rights to hold Ireland to the agreements it made.
> They’ve just about always been just lies of convenience.
Your examples are proving the opposite of what you appear to think they do. The US would be a much better example of what you mean, but that just demonstrates that nobody currently wants to take the US on.
In any case, Ireland is perfectly free to exit the treaty normally if it chooses. England showed them how.
I'm going to assume you're misinterpreting rather than trying to be disingenuous, but I was obviously referencing the nations Ireland signed the series of treaties starting with the Treaty of Lisbon (which Ireland signed in 2009).
France, Germany, etc. are perfectly within their rights to hold Ireland to the agreements it made.
> They’ve just about always been just lies of convenience.
Your examples are proving the opposite of what you appear to think they do. The US would be a much better example of what you mean, but that just demonstrates that nobody currently wants to take the US on.
In any case, Ireland is perfectly free to exit the treaty normally if it chooses. England showed them how.