The written press

Reuters: Investors ask if ECB has will and means to save euro from Italian turmoil

Le Point.fr: Voyage au coeur d’une forteresse financière

Wiener Zeitung: Ein Italiener ist Europas Mann am Geldhahn. Francesco Papadia

Il Sole 24 Ore: Papadia lascia la cabina di regìa BCE

Financial Times: Italian in the hot seat

FT Deutschland: Fünf Jahre Finanzkrise: Die Geister, die sie riefen

Die Welt: Die Menschen hinter dem Euro

Corriere della sera: Papadia, l’italiano che apre i rubinetti dell’ euro

Il Sole 24 Ore: L’Eurotower e le simmetrie della bassa inflazione

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Germany challenges the EU
The German Constitutional Court's ruling, in its judgment of 5 May, that the ECB has acted beyond its authority is much more than a technical assessment of the ECB's bond-buying programmes. It is a legal and constitutional challenge to the principle of the supremacy of EU law over national law, and it is slowly dawning […]
John Nugée
After the Crisis, a Reckoning
After every national trauma, there is the opportunity to do things better in future. It is a chance to redress the most grievous of society’s ills. What will follow the Corona Crisis? We think there will be a renewed attention on the value society places on different contributions to our communal welfare, a new assessment […]
John Nugée
Debt Dynamics
As governments across the world are taking on huge quantities of debt in an effort to support their economies, two questions are repeatedly being asked: is not all this borrowing going to be inflationary, and how will it be afforded and paid back? Continue reading
John Nugée