Draghi May Face Legal Test as ECB Prepares QE Plan

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi will get a legal readout tomorrow on a predecessor to the quantitative easing plan that he’s set to reveal later this month.  An adviser to the EU Court of Justice will say whether the European Central Bank’s Outright Monetary Transactions program overstepped the law in a non-binding opinion that may signal whether QE must also be reined in.

“If the opinion is favorable and the conditions attached are not too restrictive, it would open the way to QE by the ECB right now,” said Pierre-Henri Conac, a professor of financial-markets law at the University of Luxembourg.

The Frankfurt-based ECB in September 2012 announced details of the OMT plan as bets multiplied that the euro area would break apart and after Draghi’s promise to do “whatever it takes” to save the currency. The calming of financial markets that the still-untapped OMT program produced helped the euro area emerge from its longest-ever recession.

Bloomberg

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