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ECB’s Rehn: Must Maintain Monetary Policy Optionality

16 October 2025

ECB’s Rehn: Must Maintain Monetary Policy Optionality
Olli Rehn, governor of the Bank of Finland, at the European Central Bank Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal on July 2, 2024. Photo by the ECB under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Thursday made a plea to leave open all possibilities for monetary policy.

Rehn, who heads the Bank of Finland, told Bloomberg that there were “two-sided” risks.

“It’s important in the current context where we have pervasive uncertainty still due to trade wars and due to geopolitical tensions that we maintain full freedom of action, we maintain optionality in monetary policy,” he said.