A postmodern reenactment of the 1930s | 124 comments (124 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: A postmodern reenactment of the 1930s (4.00 / 3)

Somehow, I'm sure that they would suddenly find arguments to change the ECB board as they had evidently betrayed their mandate.

Which is not to say it should not be tried (or that they would fully succeed). But the last 40-50 years (and maybe beyond that) have had a striking tendency of the laws being interpreted differently when presented with a right-wing or left-wing situation.

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by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Thu Feb 14th, 2013 at 02:36:16 AM EST
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I thought ECbankers were unimpeachable...

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 14th, 2013 at 03:24:17 PM EST
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Imagine that tomorrow they all became (literally, not figuratively as now) brain-dead, while still alive. Do you doubt that a solution would be found to replace them?

Accusation of criminal treason would probably at least trigger a temporary replacement. Especially if they were to act in a ~~not insanely far right wet dream~~ commie way.

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by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Fri Feb 15th, 2013 at 04:35:25 AM EST
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Re: A postmodern reenactment of the 1930s (4.00 / 2)

A memberstates parlament-appointed central bank borad can fire their CB boss (thus changing on of the heads at ECB), though the CB boss has the right to appeal that to the Court. So that is the mechanism, but in order to affect ECB decisions a majority of euro-states must do it at roughly the same time.

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by A swedish kind of death on Fri Feb 15th, 2013 at 09:48:18 AM EST
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A postmodern reenactment of the 1930s | 124 comments (124 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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