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Disinfo: The Fourth Reich is coming

Summary

The world can find itself, in front of the “Fourth Reich”, where German law extended its authority to the entire European Union, and the German parliament and the government gained the right to bring the European Central Bank under their control.

Disproof

Disinformation narrative on the so-called Fourth Reich, which has according to Pro-kremlin outlets been plotted by the EU, the Anglo-Saxons and Angela Merkel. The article also contains a second disinformation narrative about Germany aiming to dominate the EU. 

Germany is a democratic country. The Bundesrat participates in legislation, alongside the Bundestag, the directly elected representation of the people of Germany. Any parallel to the Nazi Third Reich is unsubstantiated. 

Furthermore, the EU’s standard decision-making procedure is known as 'Ordinary Legislative Procedure’ (ex "codecision"). This means that the directly elected European Parliament has to approve EU legislation together with the Council (the governments of the 27 EU countries).

On the other hand, the Governing Council which is the main decision-making body of the ECB,  consists of the six members of the Executive Board, plus the governors of the national central banks of the 19 euro area countries.

 

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  • Reported in: Issue 204
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 30/06/2020
  • Language/target audience: Arabic
  • Country: Germany
  • Keywords: Euro-scepticism, European Union, Angela Merkel, Nazi/Fascist

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