EU Case Study

Question 1

What is the EU?

Answer 1

✅ An IGO which has many rules that “bend” state sovereignty?

Question 2

What rules in the EU “bend” state sovereignty?

Answer 2

✅ Schengen agreement
✅ EU regulations that are adopted and binding and directly applicable to every individual member state
✅ Common external barriers to trade => individual countries not allowed to make individual decisions in trade. The whole market does so as a whole.

Question 3

What did the Schengen agreement aim to do?

Answer 3

✅ Abolishing border control inside the EU and creating a common VISA policy for all states