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Why the ECB had to clarify it caters for the entire Eurozone not just Germany?
Last Thursday morning this newspaper concluded that the “only EU institution with true European motives and vision remains the European Central Bank of Mario Draghi”. Just some hours later in that...
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Eurozone’s central bank leadership prepares for shoddier prospects
It has become commonplace to state that the European economy still doesn’t fare well after six years of recession or practical stagnation. For good reasons however in the past few days the horizon...
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Brexit mission impossible: Theresa May was so desperate that had to appoint...
It’s been only three weeks since the EU referendum and Britain seems to be already changing dramatically. Theresa May has already become the second woman Prime Minister in the UK’s history after...
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ECB: The bastion of effective and equitable Europeanism keeps up quantitative...
Last Thursday, 12 December, Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, was forced to compromise with the Germans during the Governing Council’s regular meeting. He accepted to reduce the...
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Germany and Europe prepare for Trump’s America
Germany, and more generally the EU, is now preparing in earnest to confront the groundbreaking changes in their relations with Trump’s America. Last week, both the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and...
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ECB steadily continues monetary easing policy as EU economy gains momentum
European Central Bank – Press Conference Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, Mario Draghi President of ECB and Christine Graeff, Director General Communications (from left to right). Location:...
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Trump to subject the Fed, challenge the ECB and make Wall St. bankers even...
It’s obvious by now that the European Central Bank and its President Mario Draghi are following a diametrically opposite monetary policy than the American central bank, the famous FeD. Both Draghi and...
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The ECB accuses the politicians of inaction, continues injecting billions to...
Last Saturday 8 July the Belgian newspaper De Standaard published an interview with Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board and chief economist of the European Central Bank. Praet said it plainly...
View ArticleExtra mild ECB tapering of QE and zero interest rates keep euro low
Last Thursday, Mario Draghi, the President of the European Central Bank performed again his superb balancing act, between the needs of the South and the demands of the North. He led the Governing...
View ArticleThe ECB must extend its money stimulus beyond 2018: Draghi reckoning
Last Thursday, 26 April Mario Draghi, tactfully left it to be understood that Eurozone may not any more grow so fast as we all knew it was doing until recently, and, consequently, the inflation goal of...
View ArticleEurozone set to abandon monetary and incomes austerity and adopt growth...
Finally, the European Central Bank’s Governing Council unanimously agreed yesterday to use extraordinary monetary measures to support growth in Eurozone and to counter a possible further fall of...
View ArticleThe ECB will do whatever it takes to set the Eurozone economy again in motion
Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, speaking at the high-level conference on “Monetary Policy in the New Normal” organised by the IMF in Washington D.C., on 13 April 2014, described...
View ArticleQuantitative easing: how Mario can tackle low inflation in Eurozone
One of the major issues that the European Central Bank (ECB) struggles to solve is low inflation. It seems that it is not even close to the target that has been set; a rate of below but close to 2%...
View ArticleECB bets billions on Eurozone’s economic recovery
Last Wednesday, one day ahead of the regular monthly meeting of European Central Bank’s Governing Council, Eurostat, the EU statistical service, published a Press release on Eurozone’s near zero...
View ArticleWill ECB win against low inflation by not following Quantitave Easing?
On the 5th of June, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided not to fully deploy all the tools of Quantitative Easing (QE) programme, which showed that the ECB is not yet ready to risk everything in...
View ArticleFive-year low inflation for Eurozone and now Mario has to finally wake up the...
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) governing council is gathering today in Naples to discuss the monetary policy just two days after the publication of the flash estimate of the annual inflation of the...
View ArticleDraghi: printing a full extra trillion non negotiable to help all borrow cheaply
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi speaking at the economic and monetary affairs Committee of the European Parliament last Monday, made at least two direct references to additional monetary...
View ArticleThe financial war touches Frankfurt and Berlin
Early next year the world is going to watch the culmination of the battle between Mario Draghi the President of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main and Wolfgang Schäuble, the powerful German...
View ArticleAre ECB’s €500 billion enough to revive Eurozone? Will the banks pass it to...
The major indicators that an economy is in recession and probably heading to something worse like a crisis, are falling prices and crumbling wages. Eurozone suffers of both of them. According to...
View ArticleWhy Eurozone urgently needs the ECB to print and distribute at least €500...
Next Thursday 22 January the European Central Bank is expected to announce its new extraordinary monetary program (quantitative easing), under which the central bank or the 19 member state national...
View ArticleECB’s €1.14 trillion again unifies Eurozone; Germany approves sovereign debt...
The long-awaited move of the European Central Bank finally came yesterday afternoon. Mario Draghi announced from ECB’s Press room in the Frankfurt tower that the Eurosystem, the central banking system...
View ArticleD-Day for Grexit is today and not Friday; Super Mario is likely to kill the...
Today is really the D-Day for the Greek matter. After a couple of moves in this grand chessboard, checkmate is just unavoidable. Today we are likely to reach a point without return where nobody will be...
View ArticleJuncker’s Investment Plan in desperate need for trust and funds from public...
Last Tuesday the EU Finance ministers gathered in Brussels to decide for the fate of Juncker’s Investments Plan. The news is quite promising for EU Investments since all ministers agreed to support...
View ArticleGreece lost a month that cannot be found neither in “mini Summits” nor in Berlin
It has been one long month since the Greek deal on the Eurogroup of 20 February where Greece and the rest of the Eurozone agreed to give to the former a four-month extension of the loan agreement....
View ArticleEuropean Court rules that ECB’s OMT program of 2012 is OK; not a word from...
Last Tuesday 16 June the European Court of Justice issued a historic decision ruling that Mario Draghi was legally correct when on 26 July 2012 speaking at the Global Investment Conference in London...
View ArticleCan the next financial crisis be avoided?
The descent of prices in the world capital markets continued almost unhindered this past week and only last Friday financial, oil and commodity values gained some limited grounds. Altogether however,...
View ArticleWhat have the banks done to the markets making them unable to bear cheap oil?
Last Tuesday, a new steep fall of the price of crude oil by almost 5%, triggered another selloff in all the major capital markets of the world. The New York and the European stock exchanges lost...
View ArticleDoes Draghi have another ace up his sleeve given his Quantitative Easing...
Last Monday Eurostat, the statistical service of the European Union, released a flash estimate for euro area annual inflation revealing a -0,2% inflation rate for February. The latter has worried the...
View ArticleDraghi to lay his print on long term ECB policies prior to exiting next year
Mario Draghi, the President of the European Central Bank, was criticized by major global financial media for insisting to end the easy money policy this December. The argument is that, after ECB’s...
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