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by chmod775 969 days ago
> EU regulations supersedes even constitutions of member countries.

On paper that is the idea politicians had, but they don't always have the final say in practice. For instance Germany's Federal Constitutional Court reserved themselves the right to make decisions superseding EU regulations, however re-affirming the authority of the European Court of Justice "in the general case", since it is compatible with Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany. Neither court is explicitly considered to be higher and their stance is cooperative.

So far, as far as I know, no EU regulation was struck down in Germany, only parts of various laws implementing directives.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht-Urteil