European QE Postponed Indefinitely? Leaked EU Draft Shows “Lack Of Political Cover” For Draghi

Wednesday, December 10, 2014
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
12/10/2014

Today things for the former Goldman banker went from bad to worse, when as the FT reports, the ECB lost its “normal political cover” to make a bold decision, in fact the boldest decision in the ECB’s history: one which could lead to a political and legal retaliation by Germany itself. The reason, as FT’s Peter Spiegel explains, is that unlike previously when EU summits resulted in “greenlighting” blueprints which, if only on paper, enabled Draghi to proceed unconstrained, this time there was no such blank check compact. The bottom line, as Spiegel concludes, is that “Draghi won’t have the normal political cover he needs to make a bold decision early next year – a problem only compounded by the European Commission’s decision last month to put off the day of reckoning for France and Italy over whether they will face sanctions for failing to live up to the EU’s crisis-era budget rules.”

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