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“Germany is demanding control over the economies of all these other countries.”
No, they want the EU to take control. Something compareable to a combination of the IRS and the GAO.

[Olog-hai]

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No, they want the EU to take control

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Unlikely they will give them direct and fully-independent control, especially over Germany, whose constitutional court already declare that the Grundgesetz is superior law to the EU law (funny enough, that is not what the Treaty of Lisbon claims). The EU is merely a proxy for Germany’s ambitions. Why do you think that the Irish budget was reviewed by the Bundestag before any other body (primarily the Irish parliament) got to see it?

The Karlsruhe constitutional court decision of 2009 meant that Germany invested itself with the power to review all European Union legislation before it gets passed. That meant that Germany invested itself with the power to pass laws for 26 other countries in the European Union. Now of course they have the Frankfurt Group, the self-appointed politburo (versus the formally-appointed politburo of the European Commission) taking a massive amount of power for itself and dictating even to EU institutions. Quite the old boys’ club.