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"A Legal Nightmare": In Latest European "Freakshow"...

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

In the latest European farce, the European Commission threatened to sue Germany after the country's top court questioned the legality of the ECB's bond-buying program, Bloomberg reported over the weekend. In what Nordea's Andrewas Steno Larsen dubbed the "ongoing freakshow in the Euroarea", the EC president - a German no less - Ursula von der Leyen said that "The final word in EU law is always spoken in Luxembourg. Nowhere else."

In other words, following last week's shocking decision by Germany's constitutional court which found that some aspects of the ECB's QE are not constitutional and gave the ECB a 3 month ultimatum in which to demonstrate that QE was a proportional response, "we are gearing up for a remarkable legal stand-off between EU and Germany" writes Larsen, who adds that "the German head of the EU Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, is now openly battling her mother country's constitution as she hinted that Brussels is considering taking legal steps that could result in Germany being sued in Europe's highest court over the ruling from its constitutional court on ECB bond buying in a letter to the German Press Agency. Never underestimate the arrogance of EUR-crats!"

And here is the German European who is tasked with leading the onslaught on the German constitution.

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