Friend or Foe? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Request for a Preliminary Ruling on the ECB’s OMT Program
I fully share the views expressed by my esteemed colleague and friend Anna Viterbo posted on this blog. In this post, I would like to add three further points. They concern the relationship between the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
La Santa Sede e le recenti Osservazioni del Comitato per i diritti del bambino: alcune riflessioni
Pochi giorni orsono, il 5 febbraio, il Comitato per i diritti del bambino ha pubblicato le proprie osservazioni conclusive relative al secondo rapporto periodico della Santa Sede riguardante l’applicazione della Convenzione sui diritti del bambino, di cui la Santa Sede è membro dal 1990 “on its own behalf and on
Oh My…OMT! Some Thoughts about the German Constitutional Court’s Decision to Refer the Outright Monetary Transactions Programme to the Court of Justice of the European Union
The Background In May 2010, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) adopted a Decision establishing the Securities Markets Programme (SMP) (ECB/2010/5). Under the SMP, the ECB and the Eurosystem National Central Banks (NCBs) were to purchase, on the secondary market, eligible debt instruments issued by central governments
