Bernd Riexinger (R) chairman of Germany's left wing party Die Linke, and the party's parliamentary leader Dietmar Bartsch (L) leave the Federal Constitutional Court ruling on the ESM in Karlsruhe, southwestern Germany, on September 12, 2012. In a landmark ruling watched around the world, the Constitutional Court overturned a raft of legal challenges aimed at preventing President Joachim Gauck from signing two crucial crisis-fighting tools into law. AFP PHOTO / THOMAS KIENZLE (Photo credit should read THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP/GettyImages)
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