USCHI FA CAUSA ALLA MERKEL PERCHE' LA RFT NON RICONOSCE LA SOVRANITA' DELLA UE: UN'ORGANIZZAZIONE POLITICA SENZA POPOLO NON PUO' AVERE SOVRANITA'.

 

See EU in court! Brussels infighting breaks out as VDL sues Merkel in row over ECB ruling

URSULA VON DER LEYEN is suing Angela Merkel's Government after its courts' failure to comply with EU law on emergency fiscal measures.

By Alessandra Scotto di Santolo

PUBLISHED: 12:02, Wed, Jun 9, 2021 | UPDATED: 15:19, Wed, Jun 9, 2021

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The European Commission will start legal proceedings against Germany on Wednesday, investigating whether a German court broke EU rules by challenging central bank bond purchases already approved by the top EU court.

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In May 2020, Germany's Constitutional Court ruled that the European Central Bank (ECB) had overstepped its mandate with bond purchases.

However, the EU's top court had earlier already given the green light for the ECB scheme.

The European court admonished the German judges for their ruling, arguing it alone had the right to decide whether EU bodies are breaching the bloc's rules.

The Commission, the EU's executive arm, is expected to agree today to send a letter to Germany notifying Berlin that it was investigating whether the German court's ruling had violated EU rules.

EU news: Merkel's government is facing legal action by the EU Commission (Image: GETTY)

EU news: Commission will send a letter to Germany today (Image: GETTY)

Such a letter is the first stage in a process that can ultimately lead to the Commission asking the EU's Court of Justice to impose penalties.

Germany would then initially have a few months to respond in writing to the concerns of the EU Commission.

If the authority's concerns are not allayed in the course of the proceedings, they could take Germany to the European Court of Justice.

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Between March 2015 and the end of 2018, the ECB invested around 2.6 trillion euros in government bonds and other securities - the vast majority via the PSPP (Public Sector Purchase Programme), to which the judgment refers.

On November 1, 2019, the controversial purchases were reissued, initially with a comparatively small amount of 20 billion euros per month.

EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen announced shortly after the judgment that she would look into proceedings against Germany.