The Basic Law is flexible

The daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praises the resilience of the German Basic Law: "The German unification came about constitutionally, and the Basic Law provided the ideal framework for that development - despite what its critics were saying twenty years ago with their democratic-cum-romantic plea for a new state framework to be worked out by constitutional convention. Politically, economically and intellectually, the decades of separation have nevertheless left their mark and posed new problems. The social state has come under pressure, the party system has changed, and political discourses in western and eastern Germany show that the German unification is still not fully completed. Our political system will also pass this test. The Basic Law is flexible enough to withstand the resulting pressure, and open enough to see through other changes - for example European unification."

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