ECB president says bank can return to adjustable policy horizon

Households do not perceive how their incomes have risen, which harms growth, says Lagarde

ECB President Christine Lagarde February 2022

The European Central Bank is turning to a looser monetary policy framework, its president announced today.

In a speech in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, Christine Lagarde explained that in September 2022, the risk of inflation expectations de-anchoring had become too high, and this had prompted the bank to change its inflation targeting regime.

“We introduced the notion that the return of inflation to our target had to be ‘timely’,” Lagarde recalled. She added that the bank’s aim had been to fix

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