About: quantitative easing Archives
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Draghi calls for ‘quantum leap’ in eurozone integration
Describing the eurozone economy as "steadily recovering", European Central Bank President Mario Draghi called yesterday (16 March) for a "quantum leap" in institutional convergence of the eurozone.
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ECB, euro central banks, begin QE stimulus programme
The European Central Bank announced Monday (9 March) that it and the national central banks of the euro area have started buying bonds as part of the long-awaited 1.1 trillion euro quantitative easing programme to stimulate growth and ward off deflation across the single currency area?.
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ECB to start bond purchases on March 9
The European Central Bank will start buying government debt in its new quantitative easing programme on March 9, ECB chief Mario Draghi said on Thursday.
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Goldilocks economics
The ECB's monetary aim is not too much inflation, but not too little, either. The balance needs to be just right. Striking this balance has therefore been called goldilocks economics, writes Jeppe Kofod.
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Doubts loom over Draghi’s ‘political’ bond-buying scheme
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi grabbed the spotlight on Thursday, as he announced Europe's latest hope to revive its weak economy: the so-called quantitative easing, or a bond-buying scheme of 60 billion euros a month.
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ECB rolls dice on quantitative easing
The European Central Bank (ECB) took the ultimate policy leap today (22 January), launching a government bond-buying programme which will pump hundreds of billions of new money into a sagging eurozone economy.
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ECB launches bond-buying scheme of €60 billion per month
The European Central Bank announced on Thursday it will buy bonds worth 60 billion euros per month until September 2016, aiming to achieve a "sustained adjustment in the path of inflation"
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Molly Scott Cato: new money will create economic activity, but won’t solve the crisis
Ahead of an expected announcement by the European Central Bank of a bond-buying programme, on Thursday, Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said that “creating new money is not the solution” to Europe's debt crisis.
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Markus Ferber: bond-buying scheme is beyond ECB’s mandate
German EPP MEP Markus Ferber showed strong opposition to the European Central Bank's expected decision to launch a bond-buying scheme on Thursday.
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Falling euro cause for celebration and concern
European manufacturers are happy with the falling value of the single currency, which allows them to export their goods more easily. But the mood is tempered by the threat of deflation, particularly harmful to indebted countries, and increasingly a worry for the ECB, which may begin a policy of buying up sovereign debt from 22 January. EURACTIV France reports.
![Mario Draghi at the ECB Press Conference in Frankfurt am Main, on 4 Sept. 2014 [ECB/Flickr]](https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/mario_draghi_4_sept_2014.png)
