Karlsruhe may conclude that, for European integration to proceed, the EU itself must first become genuinely democratic.
Karlsruhe worries that there will come a point when Germany has given up so much power that parliament becomes irrelevant, says Dieter Grimm, a former judge on the federal constitutional court.
Then, with a penalty shootout looming and four minutes of the extra period remaining, Nicolai Müller scored for Hamburg, ensuring that Karlsruhe would need to score twice to gain promotion.
The three-times German champions are the only club never to have been relegated since the Bundesliga's creation in 1963 but they were 1-0 down and on their way out with 90 minutes played at Karlsruhe.
I was already thinking at the end of regulation time that we'd end up in the second division but caught myself and said, 'Stop, no that's not going to happen.'" Reinhold Yabo had brought them to the brink by volleying Karlsruhe ahead in the 78th minute.
Hamburg SV clung on to their time-honoured place in the Bundesliga once again after beating second-tier Karlsruhe 2-1 – and 3-2 on aggregate – after moments of extraordinary late drama in the second leg of their play-off on Monday.
Secondly, the Karlsruhe court had also argued that the bonds the ECB bought should rank above any private creditors in a default situation.
But some should perhaps be on Germany, whose constitutional court in Karlsruhe this week began hearing arguments that the common EU arrest warrant violates the German constitution, or "Basic Law".
Who else would make a 160km return trip just to see a university canteen?In Karlsruhe, the recently completed dining hall (pictured), designed by Jürgen Mayer H., is a low-lying cube with a slanting, curving, elastic yellow exterior made of a curious laminated wood.
German professors did not go to Karlsruhe when, in 2003, Germany violated the Stability and Growth Pact.
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