COVID Recovery Fund challenged in European Courts

Robert Tyler | 12th April 2021 | Uncategorised
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If the Constitutional Court decides to proceed with the case, it could delay the roll out of the Coronavirus Recovery Fund for months

The Liberal Conservative and Reformer Party in Germany may not be polling more than 1% in the opinion polls at the moment, yet it is currently having more of an impact on EU Policy than even the mighty Christian Democrat Party of Angela Merkel. The small party, founded in 2016 by former members of the now far-right Alternative for Germany Party, has found itself at the centre of an enormous legal row because of its leader Bernd Lucke. Mr Lucke, who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2014-19, has brought forward a case against the European Union’s proposed Coronavirus Recovery Fund. He, and over 2,000 other co-signatories, claim that the €750 billion fund is illegal as it contravenes European Union law. His main argument is that the Recovery Fund isn’t all that it is claimed to be, and that it in fact acts as a means of pooling debt liability. In other words, it’s a Eurobond – a financial instrument that Germany rejected during the Eurozone crisis. The case being brought f...

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