[VanDeKoik]

““We in Germany have had a bad experience with enabling acts,” he said, appearing to refer to the 1933 constitutional amendment that handed the Nazis sweeping powers to enact legislation, unchecked by parliament.
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An actual amendment?

Hell even the Nazis wanted that type of power in writing. Obama just does it.

[KarlInOhio]

I guess the EU believes that the Germans were far too slow in bailing out Russian mobster money in the Cypriot banks. The will of the German government and people must not prevent them from being the European beast of burden.

[SeeSharp]

At least the Enabling Act was provided for in the Weimar Constitution. Where is the legal basis for this?

[veracious]

Germany is mostly sane, unlike most of the western world.

[Olog-hai]

This is all posturing. Brussels can’t take that power upon itself and they know it. There was a reason why Germany insisted that the European Central Bank be on German soil during the Maastricht negotiations. Furthermore, just about all of the EU agreed that Germany’s government can have final say over all EU laws during the final ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon.

[Moltke]

Wolfgang Schäuble, Ms Merkel’s finance minister, also warned Brussels to respect the limits of the law or “risk major turbulence”.

Uh, sure. Schäuble has been one of the driving forces of the whole fiasco, breaking EU treaties (no bailouts for foreign debts!) and undermining national sovereignity for years. This pathetic posturing ahead of the September general elections won't fool anyone (well, some...).