In a six-to-one ruling on Tuesday (6 December), Germany's Constitutional Court declared the EU's €800bn pandemic recovery fund 'legal'.
The programme does not "blatantly transgress" the EU treaty, court vice-president Doris Koenig said in her ruling.
Although there is "serious doubt" the fund is legal under EU law, "it cannot be clearly ruled out" that it is not, the ruling ...
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