Germany
ECB confirms council meeting Thursday as planned
GERMANY - The European Central Bank confirmed on Wednesday 12 Sep that its policymaking Governing Council will meet as planned here on Thursday for its regular fortnightly policy review.
Clearing and settlement of securities: in Europe
SPEECH - Speech by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Symposium of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Payment and Securities Settlement Systems in Germany against the Background of European and International…
Kohler says IMF may look again at 'Tobin tax'
GERMANY - Horst Kohler, the International Monetary Fund's managing director, on Monday acknowledged recent calls by political leaders in Germany and France for more detailed discussions on how better to control international capital markets.
The Bundesbank's view on the world economy
SPEECH - Speech by Ernst Welteke President of the Deutsche Bundesbank delivered at the Annual Members' Dinner of the Financial Services Industry Association in Dublin, Ireland on Tuesday 4 September.
No major CPI impact from Euro intro
GERMANY - Germany's Federal Statistics Office said 5 September that the first results of a survey of retail prices don't so far show any significant impact on consumer prices from the euro's introduction.
More low-value euro notes for German retailers
GERMANY - Germany may need to print more low-denomination euro banknotes sooner than expected in response to high demand from retailers, Ernst Welteke, the Bundesbank president, said yesterday, 3 September.
CLASH BETWEEN GERMANY AND THE ECB
CENTRALBANKNET'S SPECIAL REPORT - In January this year, the German finance minister, Hans Eichel, underlined the government's commitment to reforming the financial sector with a proposal to create a unified financial services regulator, and in the…
New euro notes and coins are on the move in europe
GERMANY - Finance Minister Hans Eichel told disbelieving Germans visiting his ministry on 2 September that the euro was stronger than the German mark in its relationship with other currencies.
Welteke - ECB focus is inflation, not growth
GERMANY - Ernst Welteke, member of the European Central Bank council, on 29 August said there were signs of a possible recovery of the euro zone's largest economy, but stressed the ECB's main task was to control inflation and not stimulate growth.
German wise man eyes lower GDP, ECB rates
GERMANY - Bert Ruerup, one of the German government's five economic advisers or "wise men", cut his forecast on 23 August for German growth in 2001 and said the way was clear for the European Central Bank to cut interest rates.
German growth slows to zero
GERMANY - Official figures confirmed the fact that the German economy slowed to a halt in the second quarter of the year.
Juncker takes hard line on ECB reform
GERMANY - Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker was quoted on 22 August as saying a future reform of the European Central Bank's Governing Council should retain the principle of the equality of euro zone countries.
Bundesbank Report
REPORT - The Deutsche Bundesbank has published its Monthly Report for July 2001.
German wise man says ECB need not follow Fed cut
GERMANY - Horst Siebert, a senior adviser to the German government, said on 21 August the European Central Bank did not need to follow the widely expected U.S. interest rate cut by trimming euro zone rates.
French/German growth difference not structural
GERMANY - France's economic growth has outpaced that of Germany for several years recently but the stronger growth was due to special, not structural factors and the gap should narrow in the future, the Bundesbank said on 16 August.
German banking fed cuts 2001 growth forecast
GERMANY - The German banking federation (BVB) said on 20 August it had cut its forecast for German growth for 2001 to 1.0 - 1.5 percent from an earlier 1.5 percent.
Macroeconomic risks of euro currency changeover
RESEARCH - A recent report, EMU Watch, from the Deutsche Bank looks at macroeconomic risks related to the final steps of the euro changeover 2001/02. The report looks at two main risks, macroeconomic demand and price risks, the other of dangers related…
German economy grinds to a halt
GERMANY - The German economy slowed to a halt in the second quarter of the year, according to new preliminary figures from the Bundesbank.
Ex-Buba chief Poehl slams ECB communication policy
GERMANY - Former Bundesbank President Karl Otto Poehl was quoted on 14 August as saying the communication policy of the European Central Bank was clumsy and inflexible.
EU candidates must join ERM on way to euro-Noyer
GERMANY - European Central Bank Vice President Christian Noyer said on 13 August countries seeking to join the single European currency must first keep their currencies loosely aligned with the euro for two years.
French drop hope of replacing Duisenberg
GERMANY - France is apparently abandoning its hopes of replacing Dutch European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg with a French president in 2002, when half of his eight-year term will be up, reports Der Spiegel.
E-day countdown - ECB ad campaign to roll 1 Sept
GERMANY - European Central Bank chiefs begin their annual break this week knowing that when they return from their holidays the push to make the euro a reality in the lives of millions of Europeans must begin in earnest.
Speech by the Bundesbank's Juergen Stark
SPEECH - Deputy Governor of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Dr. Jurgen Stark, spoke at the International Conference organised by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Brazilian Institute of Economics - Getulio Vargas Foundation "International financial…
Speech by the Bundesbank's Hermann Remsperger
SPEECH - Address at the Symposium, Hedonic Methods in Price Statistics, Wiesbaden, 21 June, by Professor Hermann Remsperger, Member of the Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank. The Evolution of Inflation Measurement: A Central Banker's View.