When the European debt crisis struck the eurozone in late 2009, the European Central Bank (ECB) played a vital role to mitigate the economic situation. In 2012, the ECB announced the introduction of Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT), a government bond buying programme. In 2015, the ECB introduced the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP), a quantitative easing programme similar to the OMT. In 2014 and 2017 respectively, both programmes were challenged at the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany, which referred both cases to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The complainers argued that both programmes were, in fact, monetary financing, which is forbidden by TFEU, and ultra vires acts by the ECB. The CJEU concluded th...
A key legal debate in the context of the Eurozone crisis is whether so called ‘Outright Monetary Tra...
During the crisis the European Central Bank’s roles have been greatly extended beyond its price stab...
Does the Purchase of Government Bonds by the ECB endanger its Independence?Since May 2010 at the lat...
The Eurozone banking and sovereign debt crisis has brought the fragility of the European monetary un...
The ECB has announced a 750-billion-euro purchase programme to fight the economic impact of the COVI...
The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) of Germany has invented a new and impossible test of proporti...
After the dramatic rescue package for the euro area, the governing council of the European Central B...
In its meeting on 6 September 2012, the Governing Council of the ECB took decisions on a number of t...
Does the European Central Bank (ECB) have a mandate to do ‘whatever it takes’ to save the Euro? Not ...
To complement the ‘no shared liability’ rule and public deficit limits, the Maastricht Treaty gave t...
The main objective of this study was to establish a doctrine on how the OMT and PSPP can be compatib...
This article investigates why the European Central Bank's (ECB's) unconventional monetary policies w...
In January 2014, for the first time in its history, the German Federal Constitutional Court submitte...
The EU’s Treaties were designed to limit the interaction between fiscal and monetary policies. Howev...
The ECB’s expanded asset purchase programme (EAPP) adds the purchase programme for public sector sec...
A key legal debate in the context of the Eurozone crisis is whether so called ‘Outright Monetary Tra...
During the crisis the European Central Bank’s roles have been greatly extended beyond its price stab...
Does the Purchase of Government Bonds by the ECB endanger its Independence?Since May 2010 at the lat...
The Eurozone banking and sovereign debt crisis has brought the fragility of the European monetary un...
The ECB has announced a 750-billion-euro purchase programme to fight the economic impact of the COVI...
The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) of Germany has invented a new and impossible test of proporti...
After the dramatic rescue package for the euro area, the governing council of the European Central B...
In its meeting on 6 September 2012, the Governing Council of the ECB took decisions on a number of t...
Does the European Central Bank (ECB) have a mandate to do ‘whatever it takes’ to save the Euro? Not ...
To complement the ‘no shared liability’ rule and public deficit limits, the Maastricht Treaty gave t...
The main objective of this study was to establish a doctrine on how the OMT and PSPP can be compatib...
This article investigates why the European Central Bank's (ECB's) unconventional monetary policies w...
In January 2014, for the first time in its history, the German Federal Constitutional Court submitte...
The EU’s Treaties were designed to limit the interaction between fiscal and monetary policies. Howev...
The ECB’s expanded asset purchase programme (EAPP) adds the purchase programme for public sector sec...
A key legal debate in the context of the Eurozone crisis is whether so called ‘Outright Monetary Tra...
During the crisis the European Central Bank’s roles have been greatly extended beyond its price stab...
Does the Purchase of Government Bonds by the ECB endanger its Independence?Since May 2010 at the lat...