today the topic of ongoing ECB QE finally came to a fore when the Italian Cabinet Undersecretary Giancarlo Giorgetti – a prominent member of League, the government coalition partner – said he hopes the ECB’s quantitative easing program will be extended to “help protect the country from financial speculators.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-20/italy-urges-ecb-extend-qe-protect-speculative-attack