{"id":53176,"date":"2020-05-11T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53176"},"modified":"2020-05-11T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:24:07","slug":"a-legal-nightmare-in-latest-european-freakshow-eu-threatens-to-sue-germany-over-qe-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53176","title":{"rendered":"“A Legal Nightmare”: In Latest European “Freakshow”, EU Threatens To Sue Germany Over QE Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“A Legal Nightmare”: In Latest European “Freakshow”, EU Threatens To Sue Germany Over QE Ruling<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the latest European farce, the European Commission threatened to sue Germany after the country\u2019s top court questioned the legality of the ECB\u2019s bond-buying program, <\/strong>Bloomberg reported over the weekend. In what Nordea’s Andrewas Steno Larsen dubbed <\/a>the “ongoing freakshow in the Euroarea”<\/strong>, the EC president – a German no less – Ursula von der Leyen said that “The final word in EU law is always spoken in Luxembourg. Nowhere else.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, following last week’s shocking decision by Germany’s constitutional court which found that some aspects of the ECB’s QE are not constitutional and gave the ECB a 3 month ultimatum in which to demonstrate that QE was a proportional response, “we are gearing up for a remarkable legal stand-off between EU and Germany” <\/strong>writes Larsen, who adds that “the German head of the EU Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, is now openly battling her mother country’s constitution as she hinted that Brussels is considering taking legal steps that could result in Germany being sued in Europe’s highest court over the ruling from its constitutional court on ECB bond buying in a letter <\/a>to the German Press Agency. Never underestimate the arrogance of EUR-crats!”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here is the\u00a0German<\/s>\u00a0European who is tasked with leading the onslaught on the German constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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German head of the EU Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And just to make sure the Germans are really pissed off, the ECB has tasked its staff to study if they should consider buying junk corporate bonds according to Reuters, “as if the ECB hasn\u2019t manipulated credit prices enough already” as Nordea helpfully adds, noting that “ultimately, we think the EUR-ship will be glued together again \u2013 but markets are rightfully pricing in a risk of an ugly political showdown for the time being (wider spreads, relatively low EUR\/USD etc).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“A Legal Nightmare”: In Latest European “Freakshow”, EU Threatens To Sue Germany Over QE Ruling In the latest European farce, the European Commission threatened to sue Germany after the country\u2019s top court questioned the legality of the ECB\u2019s bond-buying program, Bloomberg reported over the weekend. In what Nordea’s Andrewas Steno Larsen dubbed the “ongoing freakshow in the Euroarea”, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[233,279,282,661],"class_list":["post-53176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-ecb","tag-eu","tag-european-central-bank","tag-qe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53177,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176\/revisions\/53177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}