To cope with the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the launch of the PEPP which is a new asset purchase programme for private and public sector securities, and the strengthening of the intervention capacity of the existing Asset Purchase Programme (APP) will increase the balance sheet of the European Central Bank (ECB) by "€1.1 trillion" by the end of 2020, said the President of the Frankfurt monetary institute, on Thursday 16 April, in her speech during the video conference...