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Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) SPEECH Keynote speech by Fabio Panetta at a Capital Markets webinar organised by the European Investment Bank and the European Stability Mechanism Frankfurt am Main, 1 July 2020 The coronavirus (COVID-19) shock creates a uniquely high degree of uncertainty about the economic outlook[1].We lack clarity about when the virus will...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) INTERVIEW Interview with Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB, conducted by Marco Zatterin on 26 June 2020 and published on 1 July 2020 1 July 2020 The International Monetary Fund has just revised down all of its projections. How is the European economy looking from the ECB’s perspective? The level...

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Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) SPEECH Speech by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Petersberger Sommerdialog, 27 June 2020 Frankfurt am Main, 27 June 2020 The coronavirus crisis is having serious humanitarian and economic consequences. Current Eurosystem staff projections assume a decline in economic activity of almost 9% in...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) Account of the monetary policy meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank held in Frankfurt am Main on Wednesday and Thursday, 3-4 June 2020 1. Review of financial, economic and monetary developments and policy options Financial market developments Ms Schnabel reviewed the financial market developments since the...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) SPEECH Speech by Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Financial Center Breakfast Webinar organised by Frankfurt Main Finance 24 June 2020 Today, I will discuss the impact of the monetary policy measures taken by the ECB in response to the pandemic emergency on...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) THE ECB BLOG Blog post by Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB 22 June 2020 March 2020 was a pivotal month in the escalation of the economic and financial dimensions of the pandemic crisis.[1] As it became clear that the scale and speed of the...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) SPEECH Speech by Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB, at the Frankfurt Finance Summit Frankfurt am Main, 22 June 2020 As the last speaker of the day, after providing you with a brief overview of the economic outlook for the euro area, I will focus my remarks on the...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) 19 June 2020 RESEARCH BULLETIN NO. 72 By Danilo Leiva-Leon, Gabriel Perez-Quiros and Eyno Rots[1] The Global Weakness Index (GWI) is a real-time measure of how weak the global economy is. We use this index to assess on the spot how the repercussions of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis are playing...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) Prepared by Tobias Schuler The lockdown measures adopted to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are having a significant impact on euro area trade in services, in particular on travel and passenger transportation. Exports of services dropped by 10.6% and imports of services dropped by 3.3% in March 2020 compared to...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) Since 1 January 1999 the euro has been introduced in 19 EU Member States; this report examines seven of the eight EU countries that have not yet adopted the single currency. One of the eight countries, Denmark, has notified the Council of the European Union (EU Council) of its intention...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) Prepared by Stephanie Bergbauer, Nils Hernborg, Jean-François Jamet, Eric Persson and Hanni Schölermann Building on the literature on trust in institutions, the article looks at the state, evolution and sociodemographic breakdown of citizens’ trust in the ECB and support for the euro. Drawing on a novel typology of attitudes towards...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) INTERVIEW Interview with Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Isabella Bufacchi on 8 June 11 June 2020 The ECB does not tolerate fragmentation, yet the pandemic is making the eurozone more fragmented than ever because fiscal responses and economic and social damage are...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) SPEECH Remarks by Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB at the Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin, (by video conference) Frankfurt am Main, 10 June 2020 The euro area economy has been experiencing an unprecedented contraction since the coronavirus (COVID-19) began spreading in Europe. Economic activity declined in...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) SPEECH Remarks by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at an online seminar hosted by the Florence School of Banking & Finance Frankfurt am Main, 10 June 2020 Over the past few weeks, hopes for a short duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and a quick rebound...

Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) PRESS RELEASE 9 June 2020 Euro remains unchallenged as second most used currency globally after the US dollar Role of euro stable as global reserve currency International role declined after the global financial crisis, now bottomed out Euro used as main currency of denomination globally for green bond issuance The...

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Via ECB (Den Europæiske Centralbank) PRESS RELEASE 5 June 2020 ECB and Banca Naţională a României set up new repo line Repo line to remain in place until end-2020, or as long as needed Size of repo line set at €4.5 billion The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Banca Naţională a României (National Bank...