nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200513-133734-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200513s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200513-133734-0 doi eng 342 23 Alter, Karen Author aut Is it a Dance or is it Chicken? The German Constitutional Court's European Central Bank Ruling Alter, Karen Verfassungsblog 2020-05-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier I cut my teeth studying the German Constitutional Court’s relationship with the European Court of Justice. A recent article in the Financial Times used the metaphor of a dance to explain the GCC’s history of pushing back against the ECJ’s authority. In 2001, I called it a game of chicken. I don’t worry that playing chicken with the ECJ inevitably leads to European disintegration. The GCC’s ECB ruling is, however, the wrong decision issued at the wrong time. Economic policy-makers will and should ignore the ruling, and for this reason I expect the GCC to step back from the brink, once again. But harm is nonetheless being inflicted on a tottering global economy, a fragile European project, and a disintegrating popular support for the rule of law. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 BVerfG ECB monetary policy Ultra Vires Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/is-it-a-dance-or-is-it-chicken/ raw object