The European Union's recovery fund is struggling to materialize.
Dramatic change, Friday: the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe suspended the process of its ratification, due to an appeal against this mechanism based on a common debt.
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The supreme body
"decided that the text of the law"
on this plan, which had just been approved by a very large majority by the German parliamentarians,
"should not be initialed by the Head of State"
in the awaiting a decision on this summary appeal.
A complaint was lodged by one of the co-founders of the far-right AfD party opposed to
“financial transfers”
between countries provided for in this device.
A blow for Angela Merkel who brought this project to the baptismal font, in the middle of the first wave of the pandemic, after being convinced of its need by Emmanuel Macron, against German taboos.
"A lot of noise"
The intervention of the Court hovers a sword of Damocles on this long-awaited plan to boost the revival
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