Suchergebnisse

In its seminal Somalia/AWACS judgment the German Federal Constitutional Court gave the Bundestag a right to participate in the deployment of Germany's armed forces abroad because it qualified the Federal Armed Forces as a "Parliament's Army" (Parlamentsheer). This decision marked a pivotal turn towards a democratisation or parliamentarisation of military authority which meanwhile has been extended also to European Law. It thus entrenched at least parts of the foreign powers more firmly in the legislative bodies. Recent decisions not only further substantiated the necessity and the limits of parliamentary consent, but also based the consent of the Bundestag in the democratic principle of the Basic Law. This new approach served the Court to strengthen the rights of the Bundestag in a field that is increasingly wrested from parliamentary influence due to intergovernmental arrangements. The Parliament will consequently have to develop mechanisms which give equal consideration to the need of the external capacity to act. Adapted from the source document.