Austria to introduce balanced budget + 60% debt cap law

[republicanism]

Those amendments are ridiculous.

It just reduces the power of the democratically elected parliament, and therefor the power of the sovereign.
And in situations where it really would make a difference, politicians will always find a way of weaseling out.
It will just be a nice tool for the right wing to cut social programs etc.

[republicanism]

That's why I oppose balanced budget amendments except in the euro zone. But your guys'es goose was cooked when you gave up your currency.

But why not saving the remaining bit of democracy we have left in Euroland?

Pretty much the entire euro project is a right wing project to export German rectitude to everyone else.

I wouldn't that that was the plan behind the Euro project, but it is definitely the way it works today.