David Allen Green made a good point about Sovereignty this morning.
Interesting article here - May 2020;
Our way or no way? German ECB ruling rocks EU foundations
*For what the panel of German jurists did was claim the right of national courts to decide when European law overrules local law, and when it doesn’t. That challenges the supremacy of the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ) and sets a precedent for future challenges by Eurosceptics across the bloc.^ ...
Since its founding 1957 Treaty of Rome, European Union has been an unparalleled experiment in national sovereignty-sharing. While members retain a great deal of autonomy, its rules set out where EU law–as interpreted by the ECJ–must hold sway.
To be sure, there has been a long history of national courts probing how far they can push their own competence, and of local politicians noisily complaining about EU “diktats”.
But the right of the ECJ to define where EU law is supreme was a principle that even Britain broadly accepted before its exit from the bloc this year. Now that notion has been disputed by a court of a founding EU member, which also happens to be its biggest economy and the main contributor to its budgets.
“I am very worried about the future of Europe,” said Luis Garciano, a liberal Spanish Member of the European Parliament.
“Europe cannot work if national constitutional courts decide unilaterally when the Luxembourg court has primacy. Expect Hungary’s and Poland’s constitutional courts to follow this precedent,” he said.
www.reuters.com/article/us-ecb-policy-germany-eu-analysis-idUSKBN22I1PZ