Category: Economic and Monetary Policy
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The Digital Euro Enters Its Make or Break Trilogues
Frankfurt: After three years of argument, the digital euro has finally reached the room where…
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Brussels Turns to Markets for 80 Billion More
Brussels: The European Commission has told investors it will raise up to 80 billion euros…
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Digital Euro Clears a Legal Hurdle and Names Pilot Firms
Frankfurt: The project to put a public form of central-bank money into everyday phones and…
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The ECB Holds Its Nerve as Eurozone Inflation Cools Slowly
Frankfurt: The path back to price stability has grown longer than policymakers hoped, and eurozone…
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Digital Euro Enters Its Final Round of Talks After the Summer Break
Frankfurt: The European Central Bank and EU lawmakers have pushed the digital euro into its…
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Rate Cuts Wait as the ECB Judges Inflation Still Too Sticky
Frankfurt: The European Central Bank chose patience over drama on 23 July 2026, leaving its…
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Finance Ministers Draw a Firm Spending Path for the Netherlands
The Hague: Dutch officials returned from Luxembourg this month with a number that will shape…
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Digital Euro Framework Faces Its First Trilogue Test
The digital euro moved from an abstract debate into hard political bargaining on 13 July…
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The ECB Holds Interest Rates as Inflation Lingers
Frankfurt: The European Central Bank held its benchmark interest rates steady on 23 July, leaving…
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Bulgaria Alone Enters the EU’s Excessive Deficit Procedure
Sofia: Bulgaria has become the only member state pushed this summer into the corrective arm…
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Digital Euro Framework Lands as Lawmakers Weigh a 2029 Launch
Milan: The project to give the euro a digital form has passed a threshold that…
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ECB Holds Rates Steady as Eurozone Growth Weakens
Frankfurt: The European Central Bank left ECB rates unchanged on 23 July 2026, keeping its…
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Blockchain Settlement Arrives as the ECB Launches Pontes
Amsterdam: In the trading rooms that line the Zuidas financial district, a technology once dismissed…
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EIB Backs Nuclear Power and Grids With Fresh Billions
Cernavoda: The European Investment Bank has thrown its weight behind Europe’s push for energy independence,…
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ECB Holds Rates Steady as Energy Risks Cloud the Outlook
Europe’s central bankers chose patience over further action this month, leaving borrowing costs untouched even…
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ECB Holds Interest Rates Steady as Energy Shock Clouds Outlook
Frankfurt: The European Central Bank held its key interest rates unchanged on 23 July 2026,…
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Why the Digital Euro’s Fate Now Rests With Lawmakers
Frankfurt: The digital euro has spent years as a technical curiosity debated by central bankers…
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Digital Euro Heads Into Trilogue as Lawmakers Push for a Deal
Brussels: The digital euro is heading into its decisive negotiating phase, as EU lawmakers and…
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Lagarde Keeps Interest Rates on Hold as Warnings Sharpen
Frankfurt: The European Central Bank left borrowing costs untouched on 23 July, holding its key…
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Sofia Faces an Excessive Deficit Test Months After Joining Euro
Sofia: Barely half a year after Bulgaria swapped the lev for the euro, its public…
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Frankfurt Holds Euro Rates Steady as Inflation Cools Again
Frankfurt: The European Central Bank held euro rates steady on 23 July 2026, leaving its…
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Europe’s Government Debt Gap Widens Between North and South
Luxembourg: Fresh figures from the European Union’s statistics office show a currency union pulling apart…
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Rate Setters Hold Steady as Eurozone Inflation Starts to Cool
Borrowing costs across the eurozone will stay put. The European Central Bank’s Governing Council decided…
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Euro-Area Inflation Cools to 2.8 Percent as Energy Prices Fall
Vilnius: In a capital that once knew some of the euro area’s fiercest price rises,…