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Europe’s second defining moment

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the ideological division between Northern and Southern Europe. Without greater collaboration, the eurozone may not survive the crisis

Who pays for the Green Deal?

The European Green Deal has noble intentions, but the way institutions propose to fund it is cause for concern. Shadow budgets and note printing will not tackle the climate crisis

Calls for European Central Bank to keep new president on a shorter lead

Former IMF Director Christine Lagarde faces a host of challenges in her new role as European Central Bank president amid lingering uncertainties

ECB set to supervise PNB Banka amid Latvian banking scandals

The European Central Bank will take on a direct supervisory role at Latvia’s seventh-largest bank, PNB Banka, following a series of financial scandals in the Baltic state

Learning from Europe’s quantitative easing experiment

The European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme has come to an end. The policy has earned many detractors, but it has also been fundamentally misunderstood

Containing Trump’s economic warfare with eurozone reform

The dollar dominates the global economy, affording the US significant power. If the euro can strengthen its role in global trade, it could become a legitimate alternative

Draghi keeps interest rates unchanged, focusing on Italian banks

The ECB is sticking to its stance that a reactionary response to the UK’s decision to leave the EU would not be appropriate

ECB kickstarts its quantitative easing programme

The European Central Bank has launched its quantitative easing programme despite qualms over the plan’s viability

Richard Murphy’s alternative to QE: Roosevelt’s New Deal

Campaigner Richard Murphy tells European CEO where Mario Draghi’s €1.1trn quantitative easing programme would be better spent

President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, has for a long time been keen that the institution should implement a quantitative easing scheme

ECB quantitative easing plan approved

Mario Draghi’s bond buying scheme gets tentative ECJ approval after challenge from German courts

As the Eurozone faces intense pressure as oil prices dip, the ECB is rapidly gaining support for a proposed quantitative easing programme - advocated by its President Mario Draghi

Is it time for the ECB to introduce a quantitative easing programme?

Growing deflationary pressure in the eurozone means that the time has finally come to trial the uncertain fix of an ECB-backed QE programme

Yesterday, President of the ECB, Mario Draghi, gave more information about the bank's asset purchase programme, due to start later this year. The institution hopes the purchases will add essential liquidity to its flagging financial system

ECB announces details of asset purchase programme

ECB president Mario Draghi has announced further details of the bank’s asset purchase programme; set to begin in the fourth quarter of this year

Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission. His appointment has upset the likes of David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith, the latter of whom said that giving him the role was "flicking two fingers at the rest of Europe"

Juncker’s presidential appointment ruffles feathers in Europe

Jean-Claude Juncker’s appointment as the new President of the European Commission smacks of a nice retirement role for an EU stalwart and flies in the face of widespread anti-EU sentiment

Soaring costs and high expectations put pressure on new ECB headquarters

The ECB finally moves into its new headquarters this year, but the building may not be sufficient for the organisation’s growing responsibilities

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