EU: German law professor warns of looming democratic deficit

According to OpenEurope:

Sueddeutsche Zeitung features the comments of German law professor Frank Schorkopf regarding the Lisbon Treaty judgement of the German Constitutional Court. Schorkopf says that the judgement may come as a wake-up call alerting people to the fact that more EU competencies does not necessarily correlate to the success of the EU. He argues that a lot of problems have to be solved collectively, but not all. He added that the European Parliament does not stand up to the core principles of political governance:

"That's why Karlsruhe said, that there have to be decisions which can only be made on the national level."

"Year after year, significant legal acts are decided on the European level, which have an impact on the rights and liberties of the citizens. How long shall we wait until the threshold of real democratic legitimacy is crossed?"