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European Ombudsman advises Mario Draghi to suspend membership of Group of Thirty

Brussels, 17/01/2018 (Agence Europe)

On Wednesday 17 January, the European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, advised the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, to suspend his membership of the 'Group of Thirty' (G30), a private organisation that describes itself as a discussion forum and is made up of public and private sector bankers, until the end of his term in office.

There was a first complaint about the ECB's involvement in the activities of the G30 in 2012, but at the time, the European Ombudsman found that...