Welcome address by Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Joint ECB-IMF-IMFER Conference 2024 Frankfurt am Main, 23 July 2024 I am pleased to welcome you to this research conference, jointly organised by the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the IMF Economic Review. The focus
Interview with Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB, conducted by Sergio Rivas 23 July 2024 Last Thursday’s meeting seems to have left everything open with regard to September. We based our decision on the data we received since the last monetary policy meeting in June. For inflation, those data are practically in line with
July 2024 19 July 2024 External communication Progress report on the digital euro project On 24 June 2024 the ECB published its first progress report on the digital euro preparation phase, which outlines the progress made on key digital euro design aspects and the envisaged next steps, concluding that the project is on track in
19 July 2024 ECB publishes indicative calendars for Eurosystem’s regular tender operations and reserve maintenance periods for 2025 The European Central Bank (ECB) today published the indicative calendars for the Eurosystem’s regular tender operations and reserve maintenance periods in 2025. The indicative calendar for the Eurosystem’s reserve maintenance periods takes into account the calendar for
18 July 2024 The Governing Council today decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. The incoming information broadly supports the Governing Council’s previous assessment of the medium-term inflation outlook. While some measures of underlying inflation ticked up in May owing to one-off factors, most measures were either stable or edged down in
