The PSPP decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court under scrutiny

On 5 May 2020, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) delivered a decision that will echo for years to come. The judgement on the legality of the ECB’s decisions on the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) has been delivered after the Weiss European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling of 2018 and declared the ECJ judgment as being ultra vires in Germany. The recent FCC decision has raised important legal, economic and political concerns such as:
How will the FCC ruling impact on the ability of the ECB to pursue its monetary policy strategy? What consequences will it have on the ECB measures adopted in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic? Which will be the impact of such a decision in other fields of EU law and from an EU economic integration perspective? Will the relationship between the ECJ and national courts change and will the primacy of EU law further questioned?

Join us on 2 June 2020 for a webinar where we will address these questions and discuss the implications of this decision from a broader economic, legal, and political perspectives, together with:
Professor Miguel Poiares Maduro (Professor and Director of the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute and former Advocate General of the European Court of Justice);
Professor Katharina Pistor (Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law, Columbia University);
Professor Daniela Gabor (Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of the West of England-Bristol).

For those who would like to join us online and are not registered in the Young Scholars Directory, you can send an email to [email protected] with your email address, so as to be invited externally. You will receive an email with the corresponding Zoom link 15 minutes before the webinar starts.

We look forward to seeing you online!
Luisa and Cecilia