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> ... the biggest FUD of all is this notion that the EU even has some sort of legal enforcement mechanisms independent of a Member State.

In that case, I'm not sure how to interpret Microsoft v. Commission (triggered by EC, ruled by ECJ), or how to make sense of the fact that the EU, IIRC, has its own (non-state) representative at the WTO, which in turn has its own (state-independent) dispute resolution system, with capacity to inflict trade sanctions.

The 'cops' analogy might be very misleading here, right?