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ECJ annuls a national measure against an independent central banker

Case C‑202/18 (Ilmārs Rimšēvičs v Republic of Latvia) and Case C‑238/18 (European Central Bank v Republic of Latvia); Opinion of AG Kokott of 19 December 2018, ECLI:EU:C:2018:1030; judgment of the Court of 26 February 2019, ECLI:EU:C:2019:139. A recent judgment of the ECJ underlined the increasing interweaving of EU...

European Central Bank’s room for manoeuvre provisionally confirmed

Last week saw a confirmation of the powers of the European Central Bank (ECB) to address the crisis with the delivery of the (non-binding) Opinion in a case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU, or European Court).  The Advocate General (AG) confirmed the wide...