Pubblicato su stage4eu il: 02/09/2026 European Central Bank, Traineeship in Legal Services
You will be part of the Directorate General Legal Services. Our Directorate General comprises around 160 lawyers from the 27 EU Member States. We advise on the legal aspects of the regulatory, contractual and institutional framework of the ECB, the European System of Central Banks and the Single Supervisory Mechanism. Our work includes drafting legal instruments and advising on the interpretation of the EU Treaties. We also prepare the ECB’s opinions on draft EU and national legislation and contribute to defining the ECB’s legal position with regard to EU institutions, Member States and international fora.
In your role as a trainee, you will be assigned to one of three divisions: the Institutional Law Division, the Supervisory Law Division or the Financial Law Division. You will work closely with experienced legal counsels and contribute to the provision of legal advice on a broad range of matters in an EU context.
- A bachelor’s degree or higher in law obtained in an EU Member State;
- an awareness of, and interest in, the role and functioning of the ECB, the European System of Central Banks, the Economic and Monetary Union and European banking supervision;
- a good knowledge of the MS Office package;
- an advanced (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official language of the EU, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- a sound knowledge of EU law (for example, EU institutional and administrative law or the legal framework of the Economic and Monetary Union), contract and procurement law, financial law, supervisory law or other fields of law directly relevant to the work of one of the three divisions mentioned above;
- specialisation, experience or research in a legal field relevant to the work of one of the three divisions;
- an intermediate (B2) or higher command of French and/or German, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.