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An article in Die Welt by Professor for public law at Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich Peter M. Huber

The parliaments of the member states must control the Council of Ministers better.

In the article Huber suggests that the EU Constitution will lead to a further disempowerment of the member states”, and will cause a major constitutional problem in Germany. He says, “Individual voters, as well as the Federal Constitutional Court will lose influence in the democratic decision-making process.

Huber suggests that it is urgently required also from the point of view of the Basic Law to markedly extend the influence of the Bundestag on the law-making in the European Union. So far the Basic Law regulated procedures was not sufficient, in order to prevent the continuous deprivation of power of the parliament.

The democratic endorsement level drops, the constitutional basic choice of the people’s sovereignty and democracy would be under pressure. There needs to be a stronger participation of the national parliaments in the law-making process of the European Union it is the most important vehicle, in order to solve the authentication and problems of acceptance.