Draghi Gets EU Top Court’s Backing for 2012 OMT Plan
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The European Central Bank’s 2012 bond-buying program won the backing of the European Union’s highest court, expanding ECB President Mario Draghi’s crisis-fighting arsenal.
The EU Court of Justice said in a ruling in Luxembourg Tuesday that the Outright Monetary Transactions program doesn’t exceed the powers of the ECB in relation to monetary policy.