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Weirdly I don't remember all these pro-EU tweeters swooning on any of the various occasions when the EU broke the law by breaching the very treaties on which it is founded. Maybe I blinked and missed it? https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1078193946256465920
Don't mention Article 125 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, which forbids, er, bailouts of member states. https://twitter.com/wallaceme/status/1303627164991082496?s=20
Or, ahem, the fact that Greece unabashedly cooked its books to cover for the fact it didn't qualify under the convergence criteria to join the Euro, which Brussels ignored for political reasons. How did that turn out, btw? https://twitter.com/wallaceme/status/1303627164991082496?s=20
Anyone retweeting the above will in time be compelled to write out "The EU is a rules-based organisation" 100 times, as repetition is a suitable replacement for it actually being true.
I'm enjoying the answer "the signatories chose to vary the agreement". Er, when? When did the signatories of the EU treaties sit down and agree to the formal variation of the treaties to allow for the above actions? When did the member states ratify those treaty changes? Never.
It might also be time to reflect a little on all the times people argued that Eurosceptics overstated the cost and impact of EU law on the UK, because other Member States were far more flexible in what they chose to apply and obey...
