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Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Monday he was confident the country's top court will not block the signing into law of the eurozone's key crisis-fighting tools. "The constitutional court will not block, I am sure, the treaties of the fiscal compact and the ESM," he said, referring to the European Stability Mechanism and the European fiscal pact. The ruling is due on September 12. Speaking at a conference in Strasbourg, the minister said the court will however closely examine if these treaties conform to Germany's basic law. "I can't see any problem with the German constitution," he added. The German parliament voted in favour of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European fiscal pact with a two-thirds majority at the end of June. But German President Joachim Gauck held off from completing the ratification process following a raft of legal challenges filed by the far-left Die Linke party, a citizens' initiative group and a well-known eurosceptic from Chancellor Angela Merkel's CSU Bavarian sister party. They argued that the ESM -- the EU's permanent 500-billion-euro ($627-billion) rescue fund -- and the fiscal pact were incompatible with Germany's "Grundgesetz" or Basic Law because they are effectively forcing Germany to surrender its budgetary sovereignty without the necessary democratic backing. They argue that by committing Europe's biggest economy and already its effective paymaster to the ESM, parliament was exposing Germany's public finances to unlimited risks should more eurozone countries topple under the debt crisis. In his wide-ranging talk on the crisis, Schaeuble said the Franco-German axis that has long been the backbone to European integration "may not dominate Europe", but have to lead Europe "in some way". Questioned on the fate of Greece in the eurozone, the minister said "as long as we don't have the report of the troika, we will not speculate". Auditors from the ECB, EU and International Monetary Fund are due to report on the state of Greece's finances later this month.
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Njemački Ustavni sud u srijedu je presudio da prihvaćanje Europskog stabilizacijskog mehanizma (ESM) nije protivno njemačkom ustavu te je tako uklonjena najveća neizvjesnost oko rješavanja financijske krize eurozone. Osam ustavnih sudaca je dalo zeleno svjetlo njemačkom predsjedniku Joachimu Gaucku da potpiše zakone o budućem, popularno nazvanom europskom fondu spasa i fiskalnom paktu namijenjenima jačanju proračunske discipline. Također su odlučili da svako povećanje financijskog udjela Njemačke u ESM-u mora dobiti potvrdu u parlamentu. Ustavni sud tako traži da Bundestag, donji dom parlamenta, i Bundesrat, gornji dom, budu u svakom trenutku u potpunosti informirani o svim raspravama na tu temu. ESM se ne može koristiti dok ga ne ratificiraju zemlje koje osiguravaju 90 posto sredstava, među njima i Njemačka, najveći financijaš koji sam izdvaja više od četvrtine novca. ESM ima fond od 500 milijarda eura, 80 milijarda eura kapitala i ostatak u vidu jamstava. Njemačka trenutno u ESM-u sudjeluje sa 190 milijardi eura. Suci njemačkog ustavnog suda vijećali su gotovo tri mjeseca prije nego su donijeli svoju odluku, svjesni da će njihova odluka stvoriti činjenice koje se neće moći dokinuti. Uoči odluke, prema rezultatima jedne reprezentativne ankete, 54 posto Nijemaca se nadalo da će Ustavni sud poništiti zakone o Europskom stabilizacijskom mehanizmu, što su ih njihovi predstavnici donijeli u Bundestagu dvotrećinskom većinom glasova.