Oh I think it is more than a minor distraction, you can see from her appalling comments that she has no accountability to the EU citizens she represents and doesn't have to stand for election by the people who pay her wages.
An excellent example of why Britain voted for brexit and displays the democratic deficit within the EU which will split it apart eventually.
Another opinion puts it better than I...
"For the first time since the European Economic Community was founded in 1957, a member state has legally asserted European bodies have overreached. Germany is not just any member state. The highest court of Europe’s biggest economy, the eurozone’s paymaster, has just declared the EU’s ultimate authority is “invalid” within German borders.'
Liam Halligan, writing in The Telegraph (May 9th)
https://eutoday.net/news/politics/20...ng-against-ecb
What the German courts have just ruled on, taking back their sovereignty from the EU, was a major motivator in the UK brexit referendum.
I reckon the EU are missing the UK boogeyman so much they are lining up Germany to take our place and are now taking pops at them and the Germans are putting the EU back back in their box and having none of it, well done to them I say. Be a lot easier just to do a DExit though, hopefully they will fingers X.