Central Banks

Lagarde Confident ECB’s Policy Will Bring Inflation Back to Goal

  • Consumer-price growth still persisting, but it’s slowing
  • Christine Lagarde comments in La Tribune Dimanche interview

Christine Lagarde

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The European Central Bank’s policy will help tame inflation, according to President Christine Lagarde.

“We want to bring inflation to 2% and we will succeed,” Lagarde told La Tribune Dimanche in an interview, adding that an inflationary spiral “must absolutely be avoided.”