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Hans-Jürgen Papier on the EU Constitution

The presiding judge of Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has published a series of articles and statements in newspapers in which he warns about serious deficiencies of the planned European Constitution, especially a lack of a division of executive and legislative power, the uncontrolled power of the Council and Commission, the unclear limitations on the competence of the EU vs the national states and the lack of a broad debate about the EU constitution. Papier moreover argues that the German system of a second legislative chamber which consists of regional governments is a bad model, which has made Germany's legislative process both undemocratic and inefficient.