The Brexiteers want to regain sovereignty over British laws and fishing grounds without sealing off Britain economically. In the final phase of the Brexit free trade talks with Brussels, it became clear that even a hard Brexit would require compromises in terms of sovereignty policy.
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With Brexit, Parliament in Westminster is to regain sovereignty over British legislation.
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No matter what happens in the last few meters of the negotiation marathon on the free trade agreement between Brussels and London: With the end of the Brexit transition period at the end of the year, Great Britain will leave the EU internal market and the customs union. The free movement of persons will soon be history, and the power of the “foreign judges” at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg will be curtailed. With a hard Brexit, London is weighting national sovereignty far higher than the economic advantages of closer ties to the EU. And yet, in the final phase of the free trade talks, a passionate debate flared up again in Great Britain about how much sovereignty Brexit can and should bring. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he will only approve a treaty if the UK regains full sovereignty over its laws and fishing grounds. However, the Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González recently received a lot of media attention: She emphasized that the purpose of a trade agreement is never to enforce the sovereignty of a trading partner, but to regulate mutual dependencies.
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