By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday urged a stable approach to the ECB’s monetary policymaking.
In an interview with German financial daily Handelsblatt, Nagel, who heads the Deutsche Bundesbank, said that ‘policy with a steady hand’ was required.
The impact of geopolitics and trade tensions on inflation was ‘extremely uncertain’, he said.
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