On Wednesday 9 June, the European Commission launched infringement proceedings against Germany for violating the fundamental principle of the primacy of EU law, over a year after the German Constitutional Court challenged a judgment of the European Court of Justice validating the ‘quantitative easing’ (‘PSPP’) of the large-scale buy-back of public securities (see EUROPE B12480A17).
“EU law has primacy over national law. All judgments of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) are...