Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has come out in favour of tightening fiscal policy rules. He noted that three-quarters of all euro-area countries were still set to remain far removed from a sound fiscal position in 2018, emphasising that "that is not what fiscal consolidation looks like".

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann warns against asking too much of monetary policy, saying in an interview with various European newspapers that the European Central Bank can't solve every problem.

Claudia Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, has been appointed as Chair of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC). The appointment was approved by the All Governors Meeting of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

The Deutsche Bundesbank posted its first-ever representative to South Africa at the country's German Embassy on 1 August 2016 with a view to deepening the bank's cooperation with the G20 emerging market economy.

The Bundesbank recalls the achievements of its former President Hans Tietmeyer, who has just turned 85. In a conversation with publisher David Marsh, Hans Tietmeyer reviews past monetary policy decisions.

In the latest issue of the Monthly Report, the Bundesbank explains the need for adjustment to the statutory pension insurance scheme arising from continued demographic change, arguing that raising the retirement age again cannot be taboo.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has called on European governments to make a decision: relinquish sovereign rights or step up individual national responsibility. "Sooner or later, a pivotal decision has to be taken if we want to safeguard the monetary union as a union of stability," Mr Weidmann said in an interview.

In future, it should be possible to resolve banks in an orderly fashion without endangering financial stability and leaving the taxpayer to foot the bill. With the implementation of TLAC and MREL, new standards were defined at both the global and the European level to ensure the resolvability of institutions in the event of a crisis. In its Monthly Report July 2017, the Bundesbank describes how both concepts work and how they differ from one another.

The financial and sovereign debt crisis has shown that the European monetary union is not crisis-proof. In the current edition of its Monthly Report, the Bundesbank presents a number of different approaches describing how sovereign debt crises can be dealt with more effectively in future and also avoided from the outset.

According to Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret, the UK vote to leave the EU is not likely to cause any major turbulence in the financial sector. "I do not see Brexit triggering a new banking crisis," he said.