Germany central bank chief hit out on Friday at ECB chief Mario Draghi for unleashing a huge stimulus package, calling the action unnecessary and disproportionate.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is flooding the European markets with money by buying up government bonds, hoping to push prices on consumer goods back up.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said Wednesday that his meeting with European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi in Frankfurt had been "fruitful" and gave him "a great deal of encouragement".
The eurozone's deep divisions were set to be given an airing in Florence on Friday as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi hosted German Chancellor Angela Merkel days before crucial elections in Greece.
Inflation in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, slowed to just 0.2 percent in December, its lowest level in more than five years, and averaged 0.9 percent for the whole of 2014, according to new figures released on Monday.
The eurozone faces a growing risk of unstable prices, the head of the European Central Bank said in an interview Friday, at a time when concerns are mounting the bloc could slip into deflation.
The head of the European Central Bank (ECB) launched a fierce defence of his euro-crisis strategy in front of German MPs on Wednesday, telling them the bank's bond-buying plan was neither inflationary nor covert aid to governments.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi will hold talks with German lawmakers next month, parliament said Thursday, amid uproar over his plan to buy up the bonds of struggling eurozone countries.
German central bank chief Jens Weidmann defended his criticism of the European Central Bank's latest anti-crisis strategy after a tongue-lashing from Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has offered to come to the lower house of the German parliament to explain his euro rescue plans. But MPs do not want him to speak in the chamber.
The European Central Bank unveiled a new bid to save the euro on Thursday, with a fresh programme to buy bonds from indebted eurozone countries. German Chancellor Angela Merkel travelled to Spain to reassure Prime Minister Rajoy.
A highly anticipated meeting of the European Central bank ended in disappointment on Thursday, with ECB head Mario Draghi failing to announce any concrete measures to stop the Eurzozone crisis.
