Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The EU is supposedly a confederation of sovereign nations, of which we are supposedly a part, and it supposedly has real and effective consequences it can impose on other sovereign nations for non-compliance or a non-willingness to deal with the issue. In reality, however, it does not do anything. Can Dr. Beamish point to anything the EU has done in respect of other trade agreements with Norway, the Faroe Islands or Iceland that put pressure on them to deal with this?