The Societe Generale Chairman says Germany’s finance minister crossed a line last week by appearing to undermine the independence of the European Central Bank. “I think it’s quite shocking,” Bini Smaghi, a former ECB Executive Board member, told Bloomberg. Earlier, the German finance minister said it could be illegal for the ECB to intervene if the French legislative election triggers a dangerous sell off in the country’s government bonds.
Live from ECB Forum on Central Banking, we also bring your interviews from UBS' Mark Haefele, EBRD's Beata Javorcik, Portugal central bank Governor Mario Centeno, and Apollo's Torsten Slok.
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