German government has remained stoically unresponsive to Karlsruhe. Finance minister @OlafScholz told his Eurogroup colleagues today that he was confident Berlin, ECB and commission would cooperate closely over the next three months and that the central bank remains independent
Berlin standing behind ECB over Karlsruhe would mean commission launching an infringement procedure against German government against the ruling of its independent constitutional court (that the gov disagrees with) would be quite a strange move
@PaoloGentiloni after the #eurogroup says the ECB's "independence is beyond question"
Scholz in #eurogroup added that he was confident there would be a solution to allow Bundesbank to keep buying bonds after the three month deadline. Insisted this was a German and not an ECB issue to be death with
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