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BRUSSELS, May 8 — The EU’s highest court today said it alone had legal authority over the European Central Bank, firmly rejecting a German Constitutional Court ruling critical of the bank’s ambitious stimulus policies. The highly unusual intervention came after the German ruling issued...

European Union flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, December 12, 2019. — Reuters pic

“In order to ensure that EU law is applied uniformly, the Court of Justice alone... has jurisdiction to rule that an act of an EU institution is contrary to EU law,” a statement said. EU-watchers feared the judgment could be a boost for nations like Hungary and Poland, whose reforms to the political and judicial systems have drawn allegations they are undermining democracy.

The ECB’s massive bond-buying programme is credited with having put an end to the eurozone debt crisis.

 

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