"These lawsuits against the right of European peoples to govern themselves"

Anne-Marie Le Pourhiet is vice-president of the French Association of Constitutional Law.

Jean-Éric Schoettl is Honorary State Councilor.

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Euro 2021 is not just played on football pitches.

Mind-blowing matches are also taking place in European courtrooms.

On the one hand, democracy;

on the other, supranational bodies.

The first match pits the European Commission against Germany.

The “breach” of European law procedure initiated by the first against the second targets the position taken by the Karlsruhe Constitutional Court on the “quantitative easing” policy conducted by the European Central Bank.

The Court of Karlsruhe indeed dared, in a judgment of May 5, 2020, to make prevail an intangible democratic principle, enshrined in the German Constitution (popular sovereignty in budgetary and monetary matters), over that of "primacy of European law", first identified by the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, then

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