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ECB publishes papers and speeches from the ESCB Legal Conference 2020

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Published on: 22 February 2021

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LNB News 22/02/2021

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Issue Date: 22 February 2021

Published Date: 22 February 2021

Jurisdiction(s): United Kingdom

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The European Central Bank (ECB) has published a book of papers presented at the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) legal conference, held on 2 November 2020. It includes the keynote address on legal aspects of the ECB’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic delivered by Yves Mersch, a member of the ECB Executive Board and vice-chair of its Supervisory Board, in which Mersch said the coronavirus pandemic and the response to it ‘placed the global economy in an induced coma’.

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