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It is time to include housing prices into the ECB’s inflation index
Stanislas Jourdan | 16 January 2020
The ECB’s primary mission is to maintain consumer price stability, but while doing so it omits an important item of household consumption: the cost of housing. It is now time to fix this strange excep …
Green QE is about more than buying climate-friendly bonds
Stanislas Jourdan | 7 January 2020
The recent declarations of new European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde on the possible role of her institution in the fight against climate change have revived pushbacks from central bankers …
Christine Lagarde meets with Positive Money Europe
Positive Money Europe | 4 December 2019
On Monday 2 December 2019, a group of NGOs including Positive Money Europe met with the new President of the European to hand over a letter calling on the ECB to accelerate its efforts in the fight ag …
What can the Eurogroup do to promote gender diversity at the ECB?
Stanislas Jourdan | 29 November 2019
EU Treaties are no obstacle for the Eurogroup to take decisive actions in favour of gender diversity in the European Central Bank.
ECB must act now on climate change, civil society leaders tell Lagarde in open letter
Positive Money Europe | 27 November 2019
More than 160 academics and civil society representatives signed an open letter urging the new president of the European Central Bank to take concrete action in the fight against climate change.