Policy briefing: How the European Parliament can make the ECB more accountable
A new briefing by Stanislas Jourdan and Sebastian Diessner outlines 12 recommendations on how the accountability of the ECB could be improved.
Target neutralised: ECB says “market neutrality” needs rethinking
Once upon a time, market neutrality was supposed to be an untouchable holy principle of the ECB’s quantitative easing, but today the ECB has finally made loud and clear this principle should be reviewed.
ECB Listens: Positive Money Europe challenges ECB’s old fashioned thinking
During a first-ever civil society dialogue with the ECB, Positive Money Europe quizzed President Christine Lagarde and Chief Economist Philip R. Lane on helicopter money, central bank independence and market neutrality.
A man’s world: Why gender parity on the ECB matters
The Eurogroup is about to miss the opportunity to make the ECB’s Board gender-equal for the first time in history.
Positive Money Europe’s response to the ‘ECB Listens’ survey
The European Central Bank recently launched a new survey asking individuals and organisations based in the eurozone for their views on the bank’s current monetary policies, as part of the upcoming Strategic Review. Positive Money Europe has submitted a comprehensive response explaining how the bank can meet its inflation target, honour its environmental obligations and improve its diversity. Here are our main points:
Treaty change the only solution for the ECB after German court ruling
To avoid leaving the European Central Bank (ECB) at the endless mercy of legal uncertainty surrounding its mandate, it is urgent that EU leaders finally engage in a long overdue revision of the EU Treaty’s monetary financing prohibition rule.