He wrote: Jan Techau, a brilliant young analyst at the German Council on Foreign Relations, questions whether the court will ever follow words with deeds: The court has always barked but it has never bitten . Mr Techau points out that Germany has traditionally been very integrationist and believes that the German people are not generally eurosceptic.’”
However, Mr Gimson noted the court s verdict still induced apoplexy in the surviving members of the West German political class that committed itself to European integration.
Prof Michael Stürmer, who from 1981 was an adviser to Helmut Kohl on European policy, told the publication: [The judgement] is an absolutely irresponsible decision.