On Friday 6 April, the European Central Bank (ECB) officially asked the Court of Justice of the European Union to rule, as a matter of urgency, on the compatibility with EU law of the suspension, by the Latvian authorities, of the governor of the country's central bank, Ilmārs Rimšēvičs (case C-238/18) (see EUROPE 11977).
The Latvian authorities had prevented Rimšēvičs, who is suspected of corruption in a money-laundering case, from leaving the territory and therefore attending the...