Bulletin n. 1-2/2014 | ||
November 2014 | ||
Wendel Mattias |
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Exceeding Judicial Competence in the Name of Democracy: The German Federal Constitutional Court's OMT Reference | ||
in European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 10 - Issue 02 - , 2014 , 263 - 307 | ||
First preliminary reference of the German Federal Constitutional Court – ECB Outright Monetary Transaction Programme (OMT) – Financial crisis – Ultra vires review – Principle of democracy – Judicial dialogue – Separation of powers – National constitutional identity – Mandate of the ECB – Article 123 TFEU – Article 18.1 ESCB-Statute – Economic and monetary policy – Honeywell test partially abandoned – Pringle judgment inverted – No margin of discretion for the ECB – Necessity, and prohibition of functional misuse, under Article 267 TFEU – Comparative reasoning | ||