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Everything you need to know about the ECB’s new e-euro

The European Central Bank has grand plans to create a digital version of the euro to rival Bitcoin and government-backed cryptocurrencies. Is there any space left for it?

World News

Europe's central bank will allow higher inflation to hit climate goals

The bank said it would do more to take the impact of climate change into its monetary policy, saying that global warming could have “profound implications” for price stability.

Tech News

Euroviews. Central bank digital currencies: a hammer in search of a nail?

CBDCs are on the rise, as regulators fight back against decentralised finance. But as leading economists from Globesec argue, they're a solution in search of a problem.

Europe News

Brussels begins legal action against Germany over ECB ruling

The case relates to a May 2020 ruling issued by the German constitutional court that challenged the competences of both the European Central Bank and the European Court of Justice.

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Europe's recovery must focus on investment, says ECB chief

Christine Lagarde told European lawmakers on Monday that the recovery from the pandemic needs to focus on investment.

Economy

Coronavirus downturn helps accelerate move to green economy, says ECB

"The fact we have this downturn does create some room for accelerating what needed to happen anyway: the green deal and digitisation," said the ECB's chief economist Philip Lane.

Economy

Europe's recovery uncertain amid COVID-19 second wave, says ECB chief

"The second wave of the epidemic in Europe, particularly in France, and the new restrictive measures that accompany it add to [the] uncertainty," said Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank.

Money

A digital euro? ECB assessing safe alternatives to cryptocurrencies

According to the central bank, some 79 per cent of all euro area payments at points of sale are still cash transactions, amounting to more than half of the total value of all payments.

Economy

ECB nearly doubles stimulus programme to tackle virus economic fallout

As the ECB pumps more money into the Eurozone economy to prop up businesses with cheap credit, President Christine Lagarde warns that the speed and scale of the recovery are "highly uncertain".

Europe News

Counting coronavirus funds: a look at EU's plans for the recovery

Ahead of Commission's announcement on the recovery fund and EU budget to fight the economic fallout of the pandemic, we look at what the EU has put forward so far to help European countries rebound from the crisis.

Germany

Euroviews. The German Constitutional Court struck a blow to EU integration. This is how we can save it ǀ View

In a single decision, the German Constitutional Court struck two blows at the heart of European integration: its common currency and the primacy of EU law. The next weeks will tell us whether it will lead to disintegration or further integration.

Germany

Euroviews. Germany’s Constitutional Court has gone nuclear. What happens next will shape the EU’s future ǀ View

The BVerfG has blown up more than 60 years of loyal dialogue with Luxembourg and has profoundly eroded the authority of the EU’s highest jurisdiction. This comes at a particularly sensitive time.

Europe News

EU to evaluate possible infringement proceedings against Germany

Government bond-buying is at the centre of a complex legal row, bringing national and federal justice into the spotlight.

World News

ECB's Lagarde warns coronavirus is fueling economic uncertainty

ECB's Chief Christine Lagarde says the coronavirus "adds a new layer of uncertainty" in an already fragile global economy

Economy

The work to stabilise the eurozone isn’t over. Reforms are necessary to avoid the abyss again ǀ View

Giving the EU its own resources is the only way to overcome country divisions on EU spending from national budgets.

Business

First protest for the ECB New President

Protestors said they want the bond-buying policy to be more transparent and to go in another direction, which is to set climate-oriented goals.

Business

Mario Draghi's final ECB meeting

Mario Draghi's final assessment on the state of the eurozone economy.

Business

Christine Lagarde gets European Parliament approval as next ECB chief

With 394 MEPs in favour and 206 against Christine Lagarde won the European Parliament approval to lead the European Central Bank.

Business

ECB chief Mario Draghi pledges indefinite stimulus to revive Eurozone

Seven years ago, in the very midst of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, Mario Draghi promised to do "whatever it takes" to preserve the euro. He now adds one more vow - to do it for as long as necessary.

My Europe Series

Brexit brinkmanship, new old faces and remembering WW2 in Brussels

For those of you who love to follow the Brexit drama, this week couldn't have been more gripping.Also this week, the hearings with the nominees for the EU top jobs began with arguably the most prominent candidate: Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF. That's in this edition of State of the Union.