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Draghi’s ‘Whatever It Takes’ Plan Faces Trial at EU Court
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s pledge to do “whatever it takes” with a bond-buying plan to save the euro-area goes on trial before the European Union’s top judges today. The Court of Justice, the bloc’s highest court, will weigh whether Draghi’s ECB overstepped its powers in 2012 with the mechanism to buy the debt of stressed countries if needed. While Germany’s own top court earlier this year expressed doubts about the plan’s legality, the EU tribunal’s 15-judge panel is unlikely to overturn it, according to legal scholars. “A ruling that would say the ECB’s Outright Monetary ... (full story)