La compra de deuda pública por el Banco Central Europeo: notas sobre la Sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional Federal de Alemania de 5 de mayo de 2020

Authors

  • Antonio Jiménez-Blanco Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rap.212.05

Abstract

The aforementioned Judgment is being studied, which, in relation to the ECB’s policy of buying public debt from the Member States, has issued an unfavorable verdict, disavowing what it had decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union on December 11, 2018, Heinrich Weiss and others case.
The Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court has sparked an important controversy, in which the position of relief has been put the German views on the monetary Union are not only different from those of the rest of the continent, but also challenge the very foundations of integration, such as the principle of primacy of the European legal order.

Published

2020-09-01

Issue

Section

CASE LAW