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Originally Posted by jonbxx
To be fair, I wasn't even aware of this case until today so I was unable to express any outrage. I agree that the German courts vs. the ECJ could result in Germany being in a position to break the Eurozone agreements. Luckily for everyone, the further clarifications sent by the ECB were accepted by German as passing the subsidiarity tests they initially failed and a bullet was dodged. The UK can still dodge a bullet too...
Luckily in terms of corruption, the EU and Western Europe states are the least corrupt region in the world with 14 of the top 20 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index. Always room for improvement though - https://www.transparency.org/en/news...-europe-and-eu |
I was only aware of it at midnight last night and didn't have time to research the voracity of the claims. Not that it's mine or anyone's responsibility here to fact check these things. Thanks for clarifying the situation in Germany.
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Originally Posted by Carth
aaah, so if we struck some kind of deal with the Republic of Ireland as a separate entity - if that's at all possible to the EU masters - everything would be fine  |
Trading blocs with a single market can't strike side deals as the single market would cease to be um, a single market.
