The ECB will play its role. In a more volatile geopolitical environment, accelerating progress on a digital euro is crucial for bolstering European sovereignty.

The introduction of the climate factor is consistent with the broader ECB’s climate and nature plan5, which seeks to further enhance the management of climate change risks on the Eurosystem’s …

The ECB and national central banks may provide facilities, and the ECB may make regulations, to ensure efficient and sound clearing and payment systems within the Community and with other …

Notes: The country contributions sum up to the euro area wage tracker including smoothed one-off payments. The latest observations are for the last quarter of 2025 for the ECB wage tracker …

The Governing Council today decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. We are determined to ensure that inflation stabilises at our two per cent target in the medium term.

ECB (2024), “Study on the payment attitudes of consumers in the euro area (SPACE) – 2024”, December. In the second half of 2023, based on data collected under Regulation (EU) No 1409/2013 …

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The paper highlights some of the policy choices and trade-offs that emerge in this context and possible implications for the ECB’s monetary policy and other policies.

Additional details about the ECB, its functions and its role within the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and the Eurosystem can be found on the ECB’s official website.

Dec 20, 2024 · The list of implemented macroprudential measures that the ECB has been notified of in countries participating in European banking supervision is available on the ECB’s website.