ECB’s Vujčić: I See April Meeting Outcome ‘As a Completely Open Question’
25 March 2025
Boris Vujčić, governor of the Bank of Croatia, attending the session titled Assessing the costs of inflation at the European Central Bank Forum on Central Banking, 27 June 2023 in Sintra, Portugal.
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that the outcome of the ECB's April meeting was open.
Speaking at a conference in Warsaw, Vujčić, who heads the Croatian National Bank, said that the ECB had to ‘wait for more data to come and then decide in April what to do’.
‘Now I see it as a completely open question’, he added.
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