Obviously, they just don't make doomed the way they used to. Until the EU can make doomed the way they used to, the EU is doomed.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

What is noteworthy here is that the SPD blocked all of the Bavarian CSU's last-minute modification proposals. Theyblocked even the one proposal that was accepted and endorsed by the joint CDU/CSU faction: the laws passed Bundestag and Bundesrat without an accompanying text declaring the constitutional court's superiority over EU law. (As a 'compromise', a wholly non-binding statement to that effect will be delivered as personal message from chancellor Merkel to other members of the European Council...)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}