[coolplants]

Brexit solves them not being a sovereign nation. Sovereignty from foreign rule is over what wars are fought, no rational actor would give it away without an existential threat.

[mantap]

That's a bit like saying that Britain wasn't sovereign during the time of the British empire. Britain, France and Germany ruled the EU, the UK designed many aspects of it.

[coolplants]

Britain did not rule the EU, nor did it have sovereignty over the EU. The EU is a separate political entity from the UK, and had sovereignty over the government of the UK.

[DanBC]

It doesn't though, we're still under obligations in international law and we're still under the ECHR.

> Leaving the EU does not affect our rights under the ECHR, as this comes from the Council of Europe, not the EU.

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-human-rights-work...

[coolplants]

International law isn’t enforceable and doesn’t supersede sovereignty like the EU does. Plenty of countries violate international law (most of them) with nearly no repercussions.