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Why didn't the EU punish Germany when it broke international law?

14 September 2020

11:57 PM

14 September 2020

11:57 PM

Boris Johnson’s proposal to break international law ‘in a specific and limited way’ has sparked uproar. But do you remember when the UK broke the Geneva Convention? Oh. Well we did. The government ratified the Geneva Convention on the Sea on 10 September 1964. From then the UK was bound forever by the treaty and bound by international law.

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