Since the ECB last met in December, global risks have intensified. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs \u2014 or worse \u2014 to secure control over Greenland and launched his most aggressive attack yet of the U.S. Federal Reserve, triggering a broad sell-off in the dollar.<\/p>\n
That pushed the euro briefly to its highest level since 2021, raising concerns among some ECB policymakers that currency strength could drag inflation further below the ECB\u2019s 2 percent target.<\/p>\n
While data released early this week showed inflation sinking to 1.7 percent in January, the most recent ECB staff forecasts see it returning to target by 2028. <\/p>\n
A continued appreciation of the euro, however, risks pushing inflation below target more durably and may thus require ECB action, French central bank chief Fran\u00e7ois Villeroy de Galhau has warned.<\/p>\n
The euro has eased from its $1.20 peak to around $1.1780 as of Thursday, tempering immediate concerns. But analysts said exchange-rate volatility is likely to remain elevated, with investors watching ECB President Christine Lagarde\u2019s 2:45 p.m. CET press conference for clues on how policymakers are reassessing risks \u2014 and the outlook for rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the ECB last met in December, global risks have intensified. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,472,3422,32,1700,76455,20327,1195,476,478,17436,70473,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-745243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-christine-lagarde","10":"tag-currencies","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-europes-economic-recovery","14":"tag-eurozone","15":"tag-growth","16":"tag-inflation","17":"tag-interest-rates","18":"tag-monetary-policy","19":"tag-quantitative-easing","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116021216090187726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}