Positive Money Europe
Budget
€826,704
EP Access
3
accredited persons
Staff
3
2.25 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
Positive Money Europe was launched in 2018 as the European counterpart to Positive Money UK, a London-based organisation pursuing the same mission in the UK. Positive Money Europe is financially and legally independent from Positive Money UK. Our goals are: • Aligning the ECB’s monetary policy with the EU’s sustainability and climate change goals • Making Eurozone institutions and the ECB more democratic and accountable • Reducing wealth inequality and the burden of debt on society • Introducing a digital euro to make the banking and payment system more fair and inclusive.
EU Legislative Interests
INI Reports: 2024/2116(INI) Facilitating the financing of investments and reforms to boost European competitiveness and creating a Capital Markets Union (Draghi Report) 2024/2054 (INI) European Central Bank - annual report 2024 2023/2064 (INI) European Central Bank - annual report 2023 2022/2037(INI) European Central Bank – annual report 2021 2022/2061(INI) Banking Union - annual report 2022 Legislative proposals: 2023/0212 (COD) Establishment of the digital euro 2021/0426(COD) Energy performance of buildings 2023/0177(COD) ESG Ratings agencies regulation Other EU activities we follow: EU Commissioners hearings Monetary Dialogues (ECON Committee hearings) Eurogroup
Communication Activities
Regular meetings with MEPs and staff (list available upon request) Events: Letter to Dutch President of national central bank (July 2025) Letter to reappointed governor Latvia central bank (May 2025) Letter to reappointed governor Finland central bank (May 2025) Joint statement on the consultation roundtable for the Omnibus package (February 2025) Legal letter to Commissioner Dombrovskis on concerns about inadequate consultation process on the Omnibus Simplification package (February 2025) Open letter to Commissioner Jorgensen on financing building renovation (January 2025) Signed open letter and manifesto for the ECB monetary policy strategy review (December 2024) Co-signed joint letter to new European Commissioner for Financial Services (December 2024) Co-signed letter to the reappointed governor of Bank of Croatia (October 2024) Co-signed letter to the newly appointed Bank of Spain governor (September 2024) Open letter - cosigned by a group of economists and Members of the European Parliament - to the Governing Council of the ECB for a reassessment of the minimum reserve requirements imposed on commercial banks within the euro area (January 2024). Public hearing of Positive Money Europe’s Executive Director, Vicky Van Eyck, on the digital euro in the European Parliament (November 2023) Delivery of petition signatures to the ECB Representation in Brussels, on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). (November 2023) Delivery of an open letter to MEPs, signed by experts and NGOs, highlighting how the Parliament and the other EU institutions can ensure that banks do their part for home renovation. (January 2023) Webinar: How to unlock the Renovation wave (11th May 2022) The ECB’s neglected secondary mandate is now available online (Webinar, 15 November 2021) Helicopter money: the stimulus the Eurozone needs? (Webinar, 28th October 2021) Targeting a sustainable recovery with Green TLTROs (Webinar, October 12th 2020) Building up a more democratic and gender balanced European Central Bank (European Parliament, Brussels, April 9th 2019) *Publications* 'Nature's Nudge: The role of collateral frameworks in the transition towards a sustainable economy (October 2024) -joint report with WWF The Green Central Banking Scorecard: 2024 Edition (September 2024) Inflation as an ecological phenomenon (February 2024) A roadmap towards greening the European Central Bank (January 2024) Shedding light on a blind spot: new empirical evidence on the accountability of the eurosystem national central banks (April 2023) A digital euro for the people: position paper (June 2023) How to stop the wild green gold rush: Credible ESG ratings (February 2023) Climate change versus price stability: How ‘green’ central bankers and Members of the European Parliament became pragmatic (yet precarious) bedfellows (June 2022) Unlocking home renovation in Europe (September 2022) “The Role Of Central Banks’ Credit Rating In Mitigating Climate And Environmental Risk” (March 2022) Money looking for a home: How to make the ECB's negative interest rates pay for building renovations (February 2021) Why and how the ECB should go beyond ‘market neutrality (January 2021) Targeting a sustainable recovery with Green TLTROs (September 2020) Mainstreaming monetary finance in the Covid-19 crisis (July 2020) The ECB and climate change: outlining a vision for success (April 2020) Helicopter money as a response to the Covid-19 recession (March 2020) Financing the European Green Deal (September 2019) https://www.positivemoney.eu/2019/09/european-green-deal/ From Dialogue to Scrutiny: Strengthening the Parliamentary oversight of the European Central Bank (April 2019) Aligning the ECB's monetary policy with the EU's Climate Targets (April 2019)
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
We are members of two networks: Finance Watch (http://www.finance-watch.org/about-us/members-list) International Movement for Monetary Reform (http://internationalmoneyreform.org/member-organisations)
Organisation Members
We use as intermediary, on a need basis, Better Europe, 113286326329-37. They help Positive Money Europe in their advocacy and lobbying work since 2022.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.