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0 pointsderefr2y ago0 comments

Doesn't have to be different from the status quo. EU law acts upon member countries like the US federal constitution acts upon member states: it prevent individual members from ever changing their own laws to take more extreme positions than the recognized consensus position.

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g-b-r2y ago

To my knowledge EU Regulations are simply laws that overrule local EU countries' laws, so whether it's possible or not for local laws to be more extreme only depends on such laws being at odds with what the Regulation prescribes (but I'm not a lawyer and only looked into that years ago).

bmicraft2y ago

From what I've been told how it actually works is that eu law doesn't apply directly to member states, but member states are required to amend their laws to be at least as strict as eu laws on all matters.

g-b-r2y ago

There's not a single type of EU laws, there are "regulations" and "directives".

Regulations are complete laws applicable immediately across the EU as they stand, the states are required to amend any conflicting law but the regulations already automatically prevail on any conflicting local law.

Directives instead need to be transposed into local law by each state individually, and can leave many details to the individual implementations.

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bmicraft2y ago

g-b-r2y ago

There's not a single type of EU laws, there are "regulations" and "directives".

Directives instead need to be transposed into local law by each state individually, and can leave many details to the individual implementations.

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