"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Multilateral Unilateralism

by Lee

An alliance that seeks a hegemony over a region, shunning international law and treaties to do so.  Arrogant leaders snub their noses and operate out of pure self-interest. America and the UK?  No, France and Germany.

European Union legal specialists have concluded that governments broke EU law by permitting France and Germany to sidestep budget-deficit limits, the European Commission said Wednesday.

The commission, the EU’s executive agency, said it was considering taking the governments to court over a decision in November to let Germany and France, the two largest of the 12 countries using the euro, surpass the 3 percent limit for the third year in 2004.

At the time, the EU monetary commissioner, Pedro Solbes, expressed “serious reservations over the legality of these decisions.” The legal specialists’ opinion, received late Tuesday night, confirms those reservations, Reijo Kemppinen, a spokesman for the commission, said at a regularly scheduled news conference in Brussels.

France and Germany, working together to dominate the “lesser” countries of Europe?  I’m shocked, I tell you… shocked at this type of multilateral unilateralism.

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