"Subsequently, the euro area level would be in a position to require changes to budgetary envelopes if they are in violation of fiscal rules, keeping in mind the need to ensure social fairness".
The European Union's treaties must be overhauled to create a tighter political union, including measures to force countries in violation of fiscal discipline rules to face tough and automatic sanctions, even possibly hauling them to the European court of justice, Merkel said.
The district accused charter leaders of inappropriate spending, poor fiscal controls and open-meeting violations.
Last year, in violation of all fiscal controls, he personally arranged for a $10 million loan from a German bank to finance a poultry processing enterprise.
With France and Germany, the two largest euro countries, in clear violation of the fiscal rules, and four others -- Italy, Greece, Portugal and the Netherlands -- in danger of joining them, the agreement underpinning the euro, known as the Stability and Growth Pact, has long since lost its teeth.
It noted that Germany was in violation of Europe's fiscal rules.
During the same year, workers filed 7,006 lawsuits relating to wage and hour violations in federal courts, according to the Fiscal Times.
Such chronic violation could have profound implications for the fiscal rules that govern Europe's monetary union.
Stephen Gillers, vice dean and a law professor at New York University, said yesterday that courts were reluctant to impose fiscal decisions on government unless there was "smoking-gun evidence of discrimination or conscious violation of civil rights".
