Interviews
Here you find interviews by the members of the Executive Board.
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Interview with Corriere della Serra, El Mundo, Handelsblatt, Les Échos (full-length)
A digital euro will be an immense step forward for our payment system, Joachim Nagel said in an interview with Handelsblatt, Les Échos, Corriere della Sera and El Mundo. "Consumers will have an electronic means of payment that is accepted throughout the euro area, that is very cost-competitive and that places a strong emphasis on privacy."
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“The digital euro offers great opportunities, including for banks” Interview published in Börsen-Zeitung
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“Price pressures could persist for longer” Interview with Wirtschaftswoche
In an interview with the German business magazine “WirtschaftsWoche”, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel discusses weakening domestic economic activity, a reform of the debt brake and future monetary policy decisions. “If prices and the economy develop as expected, I would be in favour of cutting the key interest rates in June,” Mr Nagel explains. However, he also warns that the return of inflation to target is not a given.
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“People’s working lives will become longer, not shorter” Interview with Funke Mediengruppe
Bundesbankpräsident Joachim Nagel spricht über den digitalen Euro, die Inflation – und wann die Rente mit 69 kommen kann.
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„The digital Euro is a top priority for the Bundesbank“ Interview published in Handelsblatt
In an interview with Germany’s “Handelsblatt” newspaper, Bundesbank Executive Board member Burkhard Balz and Director General Digital Euro Alexandra Hachmeister explain why it is so important for Europe to have a digital currency of its own and why the digital euro is a top priority for the Bundesbank. Besides the geostrategic case for introducing a digital euro, they hope the digital euro will reduce the fees that merchants pay. The Bundesbank also has the issue of preventing money laundering in its sights, they note, with the introduction of a de minimis threshold being discussed in this regard.
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“Interest rate cuts are premature at the current juncture” Interview with: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
We currently appear to be administering the correct ‘dose’ of interest rate increases,
said Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel in an interview with the Sunday newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. In his view, the price outlook is not yet clear enough to cut interest rates. However, he does expect price developments to continue to normalise. -
Sabine Mauderer takes office as NGFS Chair
16.01.2024 DE
The turn of the year saw Executive Board member Sabine Mauderer take office as Chair of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a global group of central banks and supervisory authorities committed to forging a more sustainable financial system. The NGFS’s mission is to analyse what climate change and nature loss mean for the financial system
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“Inflation will more than halve in 2024” Interview with t-online
Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel used an interview with t-online’s Florian Schmidt to talk about the Bundesbank’s Forecast for Germany. Mr Nagel said he expects inflation to more than halve next year and to decline further over the medium term, and noted that the economic recovery has been delayed. It is highly likely that interest rates have reached their peak, he explained, but they first need to remain on the current interest rate plateau so that the inflation-dampening effect of monetary policy can fully take hold. Read the full interview here.
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"The path to fighting inflation is difficult" Joint interview published in Kathimerini Cyprus
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