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Lagarde: Eurosystem staff expect the euro area economy to grow by 0.9% in 2025. A strong labour market, rising real incomes, robust private sector balance sheets, easier financing conditions and defence and infrastructure spending should bolster growth.

Lagarde: Support for the euro has reached an all-time high. Uncertainty is elevated, but moments of change can also be moments of opportunity. By making the right policy choices, we can leverage the current momentum to boost the economic perspectives for Europe and its citizens.

Lagarde: As inflation is set to stabilise around our 2% target, the Governing Council recently decided to lower key interest rates again by 25 basis points. Amid exceptional uncertainty, we’ll follow a data-dependent and meeting-by-meeting approach to determining monetary policy.

Lagarde: Accelerating progress towards a digital euro is a key priority. It would help safeguard Europe’s bank-based financial and monetary system by strengthening Europe’s strategic autonomy and ensuring an innovative and resilient European retail payments system.

Watch live from 13:15 CET: Vice-President Luis de Guindos speaks about European financial integration and monetary policy at the XLII Seminario de APIE.

Coming up at 15:55 CET: Chief Economist Philip R. Lane speaks at the Barclays and CEPR Monetary Policy Forum.

In a speech at the Barclays and CEPR Monetary Policy Forum, Chief Economist Philip R. Lane discusses new challenges for monetary policy.   Read his speech ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date…

How does geopolitical uncertainty affect inflation? How do we keep monetary policy fit for purpose in a rapidly changing world? And what’s coming up at this year’s #ECBForum in Sintra, Portugal? Find out in the first episode of #TheECBPodcast Sintra series!

Our latest Macroprudential Bulletin is out! In this issue we explore the financial stability risks associated with loose residential real estate lending standards.

Our latest Macroprudential Bulletin reviews the implementation of borrower-based macroprudential measures (BBMs) by banking union countries over the past decade.

Just as Europe learned that by pooling sovereignty, countries gain influence, we must recognise that by embedding resilience, we don’t weaken competitiveness, we enable it, says Supervisory Board member Sharon Donnery.

Watch live from 12:00 CET: Vice-President Luis de Guindos speaks at the Deutsche Bank Forum.

Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel 🇪🇺🇺🇦: Monetary policy and economic growth in a more fragmented world (slides) English: ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date… German: ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date…

Letter from the ECB President to Mr Bas Eickhout, MEP, on the secondary objective europa.eu/!4kxHdd

European integration was vital in fostering a common European culture and identity, says President Christine Christine Lagarde at the Munich Opera Festival. In an era of renewed fragmentation, that shared culture can still hold us together – provided we continue to nourish it.

There is an urgent need to channel retail savings into capital markets to develop those markets and finance EU priorities. An EU savings standard could increase retail participation, benefiting savers, boosting investment and supporting strategic priorities.

Vice-President Luis de Guindos sat down with Spanish journalist Susanna Griso on Espejo Público to discuss the euro area economic outlook and impact of trade tensions.

Now is a pivotal moment for cross-border payments and we need to work together to develop new solutions, says Executive Board member Piero Cipollone at the BIS annual meeting. Interlinking fast payment systems and integrating regional payments can cut costs and boost speeds.