The countries or member states of the European Union remain sovereign states.

The

member states met the Copenhagen criteria of the European Union and have agreed

and signed the treaties. The member states subjecting themselves to the privileges,

obligations, and invoking their amenable to safeguard their sovereignty under the

membership of the European Union. This entails a partial delegation of sovereignty to

the European Union in return for representation within the European Union. The

member states' sovereignty is “pooled” or shared with other states, they cooperated and

harmonized policies and delegate some of their decision-making powers who practice

by the member states' prime actors or representatives within the organizations such as

the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Council, the European

Commission, Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Auditors,

and et cetera; they delegate some of their decision-making powers to the shared

institutions so that decisions on specific matters of common interest can be made

democratically at European Union level.

However, it is important to re-address the issue of sovereignty in the European Union in

light of today's challenges. Even though the notion of sovereignty has been the center of

scholarly debates resulted from the current existential crisis of the European Union, the

under-researched in European Studies about the European Union's issue about

sovereignty is likely to be noticed.

Thus, in sum, the sovereignty of the member state of the European Union is not lost but

‘pooled’ in areas where it makes sense to work together.