ECB’s Nagel: A ‘Steady Hand’ is Required in Monetary Policy
15 July 2025
Joachim Nagel, president of the German Bundesbank, at the European Central Bank Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal on July 2, 2024. Photo by the ECB.
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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