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| I think it's more complicated than that.
Individual EU countries are signing agreements all the time with all sorts of non EU countries.
It may be that there are certain areas of comepetency where they can't. But it's not a blanket ban. Or if it is, nobody seems to be taking notice. | |
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"... have ceded authority to the EU in those areas"
Of course other areas, for instance the respective military, remain a matter of national authority only.