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Once people realize that the ECB is essentially an endrun around the entire formal political structure, the status quo will last.. a month?
What you propose will be done over Germany's dead body. I distribute. You re-distribute. He gives your hard-earned money to lazy scroungers. -- JakeS
Which is not to say it should not be tried (or that they would fully succeed). But the last 40-50 years (and maybe beyond that) have had a striking tendency of the laws being interpreted differently when presented with a right-wing or left-wing situation. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
Accusation of criminal treason would probably at least trigger a temporary replacement. Especially if they were to act in a not insanely far right wet dream commie way. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
There is no contradiction at all in enshrining far-right policies into the constitution and then setting up an economic junta which is unaccountable as long as it enforce those policies.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
But for the majority of public opinion in Europe today, the contradiction between the doctrine of independence and the fact of tight limits on independence should be a perfectly perceptible one -- if it were given sufficient play, of course (admittedly not easy to bring about).
Avtually no. Part of the european treaties, yes. But the independence of the bundesbank rested on a ordinary law.
>The entire German political establishment appears to agree that the ECB is configured as it should be<
A good part of said establishment now actually thinks that the ECB is misconfigured, Germany only having as much of a vote as the smaller states.
Apply all legal measures of persuasion and pressure you can think of until their desires change, and their new course of action is every bit as formally unstoppable.
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