In remarks to reporters, German Defense Minister Franz Joseph Jung suggested that security would be beefed up with the recent deployment of a European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo,or EULEX, and the expansion of Kosovo's own security force in the coming months.

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For an explanation why, I turned to Franz Werro, an expert on Swiss law at Georgetown Law and University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

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Yet the Basic Law is stretchier than many think, says Franz Mayer of Bielefeld University.

ECONOMIST: Germany and Europe