ECB’s Vujčić: Outcome of April Meeting ‘Completely Open’
18 March 2025
Boris Vujčić, governor of the Croatian National Bank, at the European Central Bank Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal on July 2, 2024. Photo by the ECB under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that the outcome of the Governing Council’s meeting in April is ‘completely open’.
On the sidelines of a joint conference organised by the European Investment Bank and the Croatian National Bank, which he heads, Vujčić said that ‘[b]y the time of the meeting we’ll get the relevant data, and then we’ll decide in which direction we’ll go.’
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Tuesday that Europe’s dependence on imported fossil fuels was making it harder for the ECB to maintain price stability and argued that meeting the continent’s clean-energy targets would reduce the link between volatile global markets and domestic prices.
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday said an escalation of war in the Middle East was set to weaken growth and raise inflation in Europe, warning of “significant risks” as long as the conflict continued.
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said Tuesday that he would not exclude an April interest-rate hike and suggested the ECB would likely have to raise rates by June if the Middle East-driven energy shock had not subsided.
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