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The European Central Bank’s pandemic bazooka: mandate fulfilment in extraordinary times

This Op-Ed has been elaborated in a chapter of a book (pdf here) EU Law in Times of Pandemic – the EU’s Legal Response to COVID-19, edited by Dolores Utrilla and Anjum Shabbir to be published by Comares. Introduction The last weeks have seen the eruption of a world-wide pandemic of the COVID-19......

Mar 23, 2020
Challenging a bank’s license withdrawal by the ECB: can the bank act or can its shareholders?

For the ultimate outcome of the case below see my short summary of 19 January 2020. Summary Pending before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is a core issue of legal protection against European Union (EU) acts – can a bank itself challenge the withdrawal......

May 02, 2019