The European Central Bank offers traineeship and graduate opportunities to students of economics, finance statistics, business administration, law, human resources, translation, etc Duties of the position The work ranges from research and the preparation of draft reports to the compilation of statistical data and participation in ad hoc studies, etc. Required selection criteria – […]
Germany- The European Central Bank offers traineeship
The European Central Bank offers traineeship and graduate opportunities to students of economics, finance statistics, business administration, law, human resources, translation, etc Duties of the position The work ranges from research and the preparation of draft reports to the compilation of statistical data and participation in ad hoc studies, etc. Required selection criteria – […]
The Governing Council of the ECB decided today to reduce the interest rate on the deposit facility by 25 basis points
The Governing Council today decided to lower the deposit facility rate – the rate through which it steers the monetary policy stance – by 25 basis points. Based on the Governing Council’s updated assessment of the inflation outlook, the dynamics of underlying inflation and the strength of monetary policy transmission, it is now appropriate to […]
Auditors join the all-new EU ethics watchdog
This spring, negotiations on setting up a new EU body for ethical standards were concluded between the EU institutions and advisory bodies, including the ECA. As a result, the founding agreement was signed on 15 May in Brussels by the eight participating institutions and bodies, namely the European Parliament, the Council of the EU, the European Commission, […]
Monetary policy decisions: ECB keeps interest rates unchanged at 4.5%.
The Governing Council of the European Central Bank decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. The incoming information has broadly confirmed the Governing Council’s previous assessment of the medium-term inflation outlook. Inflation has continued to fall, led by lower food and goods price inflation. Most measures of underlying inflation are easing, wage […]
European Central Bank moves to the next stage of the digital euro project
The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to move to the next phase of the digital euro project: the preparation phase. This decision follows the completion of the investigation phase launched by the Eurosystem in October 2021 to explore possible design and distribution models for a digital euro. Based on the findings […]
The European Central Bank raises interest rates to 3%
The Governing Council will stay the course in raising interest rates significantly at a steady pace and in keeping them at levels that are sufficiently restrictive to ensure a timely return of inflation to its 2% medium-term target. Accordingly, the Governing Council decided to raise the three key ECB interest rates by 50 basis points […]
ECB raises rates by 0.75 basis point
The Governing Council decided on 8 september to raise the three key ECB interest rates by 75 basis points. This major step frontloads the transition from the prevailing highly accommodative level of policy rates towards levels that will ensure the timely return of inflation to the ECB’s 2% medium-term target. Based on its current assessment, […]
MEPs focus on inflation and economic divergence with ECB President Lagarde
Inflation and the new anti-fragmentation mechanism soon to be launched by the European Central Bank were the two main topics raised by MEPs with ECB President Lagarde. Attending the first Monetary Dialogue in Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee since the attack by Russia on Ukraine and a significant uptick of inflation across the Eurozone, European Central […]