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In the early years of European Integration the German Federal Constitutional Court seemed to be very willing to support the European Court of Justice in its decisions to push integration forward. Later on the Constitutional Court claimed a residual competence to control the protection of human rights and to declare ultra virus acts of Community organs as inapplicable in Germany. No action ever followed those strong words, and with its latest decision in Honeywell the Constitutional Court returned to its original position.
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Stein, T. Always Steering a Straight Course? The German Federal Constitutional Court and European Integration. ERA Forum 12 (Suppl 1), 219–228 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12027-011-0200-5
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