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01.01.2020 - Studies

The Abdication

by Thomas Mayer

The German Bundestag has accepted its gradual disempowerment through the expansion of the monetary union into a liability community for the sake of European peace. But in fact it also abdicates by surrendering the "royal right of parliament".

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