Dear Paschal, it’s been an absolute pleasure working with you during your time as #Eurogroup President over the past years.

Wishing you all the best as Managing Director and Chief Knowledge Officer at the World Bank!

It was great to meet my colleague, Supervisory Board Chair Claudia Buch, at the House of the Euro in Brussels, where we prepared together for the Eurogroup meeting.

Back in Brussels for a #Eurogroup meeting, where we discussed:

🔹 macroeconomic and fiscal developments
🔹 euro area challenges
🔹 digital euro

I was also happy to meet the new Lithuanian finance minister, Kristupas Vaitiekūnas.

Watch again: the digital euro safeguards your freedom of choice in the digital age, says Executive Board member Piero Cipollone, speaking before the @europarl.europa.eu Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Read the introductory statement: www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/da...

Europe is not fully reaping the benefits of cross-border banking integration, says Supervisory Board Chair Claudia Buch.

We need to remove the remaining barriers to integration for banks to benefit from economies of scale and improve their risk diversification europa.eu/!b4tcPW

The complexity of the European regulatory framework is largely driven by national fragmentation, says Supervisory Board member Sharon Donnery.

Rules should be harmonised to simplify rather than weaken or reduce them www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/press/speech...

🇸🇪🇪🇺 Today, we remember the victims of the fatal attack in Örebro. Such horrific acts of violence have no place in our society, especially in schools.

The victims and their families are in our thoughts, and we wish them strength during this difficult time.

I'm in Strasbourg for my annual dialogue with members of the European Parliament.

Ahead of the meeting, I met with ECON Chair @aurorelalucq.bsky.social.

@europarl.europa.eu

Great to see President Roberta Metsola ahead of my dialogue with members of the European Parliament.

We at the ECB are committed to dialogue, accountability and transparency towards parliamentarians.

@europarl.europa.eu

Supporting European defence capabilities.

Today, we have allocated over €1 billion from the European Defence Fund to advance next-generation defence technologies and capabilities.

Find out more: europa.eu/!nfwJYJ

The disinflation process is well on track, said President Christine Lagarde at today’s press conference, after the Governing Council decided to cut our interest rates by 0.25 percentage points.

Watch the press conference youtu.be/ETdrUfqCVV0

@president.ecb.europa.eu

We are investing over €1.2 billion in cross-border energy infrastructure to continue our energy transition and drive down energy system costs.

This includes investments in hydrogen infrastructure and electricity grids to support decarbonisation and energy market integration ↓

europa.eu/!v7Twtn

Today we cut our key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points.

We are doing this because inflation is developing broadly as we expected and is on track to settle at around our 2% target.

Read more www.ecb.europa.eu/press/press_...

Did you know that we regularly welcome visitors to our main building in Frankfurt?

Just this week, Executive Board member @isabelschnabel.bsky.social met high-school students from Heidelberg to talk about who we are and what we do.

Visit us: www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb-and-you/...

Sorry for using the wrong handle for the ECB: @ecb.europa.eu

#WeRemember and we #NeverForget, and therefore I decided to stop posting actively on X/Twitter. My usual posts after speeches and events will be found on other platforms, especially Bluesky and LinkedIn. 3/3

Witaj, Polsko! Hello Polish Council Presidency.

I welcome the Polish presidency's focus on our Union's security, in all its dimensions.

We are going to launch many important initiatives in the first half of 2025.

So I'm grateful to have Poland’s determination and European spirit by our side.

More EU humanitarian aid for Ukraine in this tough wintertime.

€148 million in new funding will support emergency assistance, including food, shelter, and winter protection.

We also help keep the economy running so the country can focus on its fight for survival.

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Chief Economist Philip R. Lane tells @derstandard.at how we have made significant progress on our inflation target and that we need inflation to be sustainably at 2 per cent.
Read his interview www.ecb.europa.eu/press/inter/...