If a dispute between an E.U.
state and the European Central Bank (ECB) on one of its programmes could come
to challenge the European Court of Justice (ECJ) itself and the very sustainability
of the E.U.’s federal system, then that system itself could be said to be
severely impaired, and thus facing a high risk of being destroyed. Yet in the Judgment of the Second Senate of
May 5, 2020, the constitutional court of Germany did exactly that in throwing
out an earlier ruling of the E.U.’s supreme court (ECJ) on the legality under E.U. law of an ECB programme.[1]
(Source: Politico)