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Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Fukuoka on 9 June 2019. KIM KYUNG-HOON / POOL / AFP

The decisions of the ECB announced Thursday, September 12 by its president Mario Draghi do not stop making waves in the north of Europe. In Germany in particular, where the president of the Central Bank has left his reserve.

With our correspondent in Berlin, Nathalie Versieux

Mario Draghi was featured in the front page of the popular daily Bild Zeitung Friday morning in Dracula ready to devour the savings of small savers. " Count Draghila siphons off our bank accounts, " then squeaked the Bild .

In the wake, it is the president of the Bundesbank Jens Weidmann who attacked Mario Draghi's negative interest rates . " The ECB this time exceeded the limits because it was not necessary to resort to measures of such scope, " criticized the head of the German Central Bank, the Buba.

German savings

Jens Weidmann, one of the 25 members of the ECB's Governing Council, is not used to spreading his differences. But according to him, it will now be difficult for the ECB to exit from such a policy after deciding to buy even more government bonds.

However, the real worry in Germany is about negative interest rates in a country where savings are a very important part of pensions. But the Germans are already worried about suffering poverty in their old age.