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It is expected that Joachim
agel, a former Bundesbank board member, will take over on January 1 from Jens Weidmann

Germany to pick Nagel to head Bundesbank - report

Germany's new government will pick Joachim Nagel, a career banker with ties to the ruling Social Democratic party, as the next Bundesbank chief, the Handelsblatt newspaper and a government source said today.

Business • 20 Dec 21

Jens Weidmann has led a decade-long fight inside the European Central Bank against the easy-money policies espoused by ECB presidents

Weidmann: the often lonely ECB voice against easy money

Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann, who today announced his decision to stand down more than five years early, led a decade-long fight inside the European Central Bank against the easy-money policies espoused by successive ECB presidents.

Business • 20 Oct 21

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann is to leave the job at the end of the year

Bundesbank's Weidmann quits with last inflation warning

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, among the most conservative members of the European Central Bank's Governing Council, will step down from his post on December 31, the German central bank said today.

Business • 20 Oct 21

German economy overcoming pandemic - Bundesbank

The German economy is overcoming a pandemic-induced slump and will grow briskly this year and the next, the country's central bank said today as it lifted its GDP and inflation forecasts for both years.

Business • 11 Jun 21

Germany's Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann

Bundesbank sees rebound in German growth after 2nd wave

Germany's economy will contract less this year than previously projected and its rebound will accelerate once the economy can start to reopen from the second wave of the pandemic next year, the country's central bank said.

Business • 11 Dec 20

Inflation in the euro zone has missed the ECB's target, currently set "below but close to 2%" for years despite increasingly aggressive stimulus from the bank

ECB's Lagarde sets scene for Fed-like strategy overhaul

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has today set the scene for changing the ECB's strategy to align it with that of the Federal Reserve, possibly including a commitment to let inflation overshoot after it has been low for too long.

Business • 30 Sep 20

Payment services firm Wirecard filed for insolvency last month after admitting that €1.9 billion supposedly held in trustee accounts by overseas partners probably did not exist

Germany must toughen audit rules after Wirecard scandal

Germany must toughen its rules for auditing and accounting to prevent another billion-euro scam like the Wirecard scandal, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said in a newspaper interview published today.

Business • 27 Jul 20

Sabine Lautenschlaeger will step down from the ECB on October 31

ECB board member's departure highlights split

The European Central Bank lost its third German board member to resignation over policy differences in a decade today.

Business • 26 Sep 19

Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann may be next ECB president

Germany's SPD to back Weidmann for ECB chief - reports

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) will support a decision by Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives to back Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann to become the head of the European Central Bank, newspaper Die Zeit said.

Business • 21 Feb 18

More signals today that the ECB's ultra-loose monetary policy will not be scaled back any time soon

ECB rate setters play down recovery

Europe's economic recovery may be picking up speed but underlying inflation remains weak, European Central Bank rate setters said today.

Business • 23 Feb 17

Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann says Germany in 'good shape'

German economy in good shape - Bundesbank chief

The German economy is "in good shape overall," the head of the Bundesbank said today, waving away suggestions that clouds could be building over Europe's biggest economy.

Business • 24 Feb 16

Bundesbank chief says new Greek government has gambled away a lot of trush

Greece sends list of reforms to EU and IMF

Greece has sent its creditors a long-awaited list of reforms with a pledge to produce a small budget surplus this year in the hope that it will unlock badly needed cash.

Business • 27 Mar 15

Jens Weidmann is a member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council

German growth may be better than expected

Growth in Germany could be better than expected next year and the situation in Europe is not as bad as many people think, the president of the Bundesbank said.

Business • 29 Dec 14

German industrial orders surged by 2.5% on the month in October

German orders surge but Bundesbank cuts forecast

Germany's Bundesbank today halved its 2015 growth forecast for Europe's largest economy and also trimmed its estimate for this year.

Business • 05 Dec 14

Jens Weidmann says ECB's moves went beyond previous attempts to encourage banks to lend more

Bundesbank head criticises ECB's stimulus plan

The head of Germany's Bundesbank has criticised the European Central Bank's recent cut in borrowing costs and its pledge to buy repackaged debt.

Business • 22 Sep 14

ECB Governing Council member Jens Weidmann, who is also president of Germany's Bundesbank

ECB entering 'new ground' with latest measures

The package of monetary policy measures agreed by the ECB last week are an indication of how little room it has to cut rates in order to deal with the inflation outlook, Jens Weidmann has said.

Business • 10 Jun 14