In the latest episode of our ‘Ahead of the ECB’ series, Danae Kyriakopoulou, Chief Economist and Director of Research at OMFIF, is joined by Ernst Welteke, former President of Deutsche Bundesbank, and Carsten Brzeski, Chief Economist at ING Germany discuss the policy outlook for the European Central Bank. They discuss the results of the May European Parliament elections and implications for the economic outlook in Europe and on the reform agenda for strengthening the Economic and Monetary Union in the euro area. They further discuss the economic and policy outlook in Germany after Merkel, and the challenges for the ECB as the world economy heads for a slowdown.

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