Will Germany trash its cunningly crafted Constitution?
None in the world should under-estimate the gravity of the situation that would arise should the German Constitutional Court rule that recent breaches of the EU Treaties will be given legality in Germany.
On 7th September, at the invitation of Open Europe, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hankel – one of the five German Professors who have challenged the legality of the eurozone bailout of
He also warned that the “ammunition” of the €1 trillion rescue package “may not be sufficient” to sustain the eurozone in the long-term. If also private depositors in the weaker eurozone economies begin to put their money elsewhere, “we’re looking at a far greater amount”, he said.
Professor Hankel said that the chances that the
Prof. Hankel concluded that his court case was ultimately about democracy, as the creation of the new EU rescue mechanism represented a clear move “from a federation of states to a federal state”.
The former wartime Allied powers should not stand idly by in the event that the Court rules (as it has recently tended to do) that these further erosions of democracy are acceptable to the new united German state. They have an historical duty so to do made especially poignant this week given the passing of the 70th anniversary of the bombing of London which was also noted last Tuesday. It would be imperative that the leaders of those powers demand a meeting with the German Chancellor to determine the changed objectives of his/her country especially given Germany's overbearing role within the structure of the powerful and non-democratically constructed European Union.
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