In Berlin
In Germany, we don't mess with judges, and even less with those of the Constitutional Court. Stung by the critics who followed Karlsruhe's decision, one of them, Peter Huber, attacked the ECB and the European Court of Justice sharply: the Frankfurt institution must not take for a " master of the universe " he declared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . As for the jurisdiction of Luxembourg, " it seems rather to have a hierarchical conception " of the law, he added.
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In Germany too, the reaction of the men in red shocked, resembling for some a new provocation. But it confirms a reality with which European partners in Berlin find it difficult to accommodate. " It is no longer the Länder which limit the margin of maneuver of the federal government in European affairs, it is the constitutional court ", recalled in 2010, the think tank Notre Europe. This pro-European think tank was worried at the time
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