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Roman Herzog, former German President:
Germany's parliamentary democracy is under threat from the European Union
Germany's parliamentary democracy is under threat from the European Union
which is slowly taking away all the national parliament's powers
Roman Herzog, the country's ex-president, has said in Welt am Sonntag.
EU Observer 15/1 2007
Roman Herzog pointed out that between 1999 and 2004, 84 percent of the legal acts in Germany stemmed from Brussels.
The article continues by noting that Germany's own constitution foresees the parliament as the "central actor in the shaping of the political community. Therefore the question has to be raised of whether Germany can still unreservedly be called a parliamentary democracy."