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Herzog: EU threatens parliamentary democracy
Date2007/01/18 23:01 by: MarcelFormer German president Roman Herzog: EU threatens parliamentary democracy
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Roman Herzog, former judge and German president between 1994 and 1999, says in the newspaper Welt am Sonntag, "EU policies suffer to an alarming degree from a lack of democracy and a de facto suspension of the separation of powers."
What is more, Herzog has a co-author, the director of the Centre for European Policy (CEP) in Freiburg, who goes by the name of Lueder Gerken. And among their criticisms is that the German parliament was not involved in European Union legislation as required by the German constitution.
They also say the European Union is undergoing "creeping centralization" and acquiring further powers, "often without due justification". The EU constitution comes in for criticism as well, as reinforcing the centralising tendency.
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