Germany's constitutional judges secure powers

The conservative daily Lidové Noviny comments on the German Constitutional Court's ruling on the EU reform treaty: "The opponents of the Treaty of Lisbon yesterday [Tuesday] had to kiss goodbye to yet another and admittedly rather hypothetical hope. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that Lisbon is compatible with the German constitution while at the same time adding a big 'but' to its judgement. The judges in Karlsruhe may be more conservative and Eurosceptical than the average German, but they don't live in a vacuum. Therefore from the very start it was clear they wouldn't have the courage to swim against the current and go to war with pretty much the entire political establishment. … The members of the Bundestag must now decide on a similar solution to what [their Czech colleagues of the liberal conservative Civic Democrats party] the ODS came up with: both here and in the Czech Republic the important thing is to ensure that member states don't simply hand over powers to Brussels with the blessing of their governments."

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