More than 2200 citizens have filed a constitutional complaint against Germany enabling the EU to incur debt of 750 billion euros. The complaint was submitted today by Marburg constitutional law professor Hans-Detlef Horn, commissioned by the non-profit association Alliance Citizen's Will, along with an application for a temporary injunction at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. The aim of the temporary injunction is to prevent the Federal President from issuing the law until a decision is made on the constitutional complaint.

“The EU is contractually obliged to present a balanced budget,” explained the chairman of the Alliance Citizen's Will, Ravel Meeth. “750 billion euros in debt financing is a blatant breach of contract.” Meeth pointed out the liability limits set by the EU Council, which were set so high that the Federal Republic of Germany could potentially be held liable for the total amount of 750 billion euros plus interest.

Meeth emphasized that the constitutional complaint does not call into question the EU's additional spending due to COVID-19. “We are not attacking the expenditures, but rather their unlawful financing through a kind of Eurobonds, for which Germany would be jointly liable,” said Meeth. However, there would be nothing wrong if each EU member state provided the necessary funds at their own expense. “That would be the normal contractually stipulated way. Instead, the Commission is abusing the COVID emergency to finally be able to incur debt for the EU,” criticized Meeth.

The leadership group of the complainants includes around 40 professors, many of whom are economists or medical doctors. Politically, the lawsuit is supported by the former CDU finance minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Bärbel Nehring-Kleedehn, the former CDU state secretary for finance Sighart Nehring, the former president of the Federal Association of German Industry, Hans-Olaf Henkel, and the former CDU Member of the European Parliament Ursula Braun-Moser. The spokesperson for the group of plaintiffs is Hamburg economics professor Bernd Lucke.

The following individuals support the constitutional complaint from academia:

Prof. Dr. Bernd Lucke, economics, (spokesperson)
Prof. Philipp Bagus, Ph. D., economics
Priv-Doz. Dr. Stephan Becher, medicine
Prof. Dr. iur. Johann Braun, law
Prof. Dr. Ursula Braun-Moser, economics
Prof. Dr. Detlef Claus, medicine
Prof. Dr. Jörg Diehl, psychology
Prof. Dr. Heike El-Hotabi, Egyptology
Prof. Dr. Rolf Eschenburg, economics
Prof. Dr. Sigrun-Heide Filipp, psychology
Prof. Dr. Florian Finsterwalder, engineering
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Foerste, law
Prof. Dr. Werner Gaab, economics
Prof. Dr. Andrea Gubitz, economics
Prof. em. Dr. Holger Haldenwang, economics
Prof. Dr. Gerd Hansen, economics
Prof. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Hans-Olaf Henkel, business administration
Prof. Dr. Helmut Höh, medicine
Prof. Dr. iur. Holger Knudsen, law
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ulrich Koester, economics
Prof. Dr. Walter Krämer, statistics
Prof. Dr. Dieter Kurth, Egyptology
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Gerhard Leder, medicine
Prof. Dr. Helga Luckenbach, economics
Prof. Dr. Dirk Meyer, economics
Prof. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Manfred Nußbaumer, engineering
Prof. Dr. Heinz Preuße, economics
Prof. Dr. Karl-Klaus Pullig, business administration
Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Purwins, physics
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Sartor, engineering
Prof. Dr. Holger Schiele, business administration
Prof. Dipl. Kfm. Ludwig-Wilhelm Schleiter, business administration
Prof. Dr. oec. André Schmidt, economics
Prof. Dr. Dieter Schmidtchen, economics
Prof. Dr. Adolf Schreiner, computer science
Prof. Dr. Alfred Schüller, economics
Prof. Dr. Peter Schulze, economics
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Joachim Starbatty, economics
Prof. Dr. Roland Vaubel, economics
Prof. Dr. Otto Wiese, business administration
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Wokalek, medicine