ECB account addresses German legal dispute

The ECB has used the minutes of this month’s policy meeting to try to defuse the dispute in Germany over the legality of its asset purchase programmes. Helped by the Bundesbank, this should be enough to smooth things over for now. But future court cases over the legality of the PEPP may be harder to deal with.

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