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Lagarde Says ECB Needs to Know Where Fiscal Policy Is Headed

Christine Lagarde

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The European Central Bank needs clarity where fiscal policy is headed in order to set monetary policy, according to President Christine Lagarde.

“If we don’t know where finance ministers will go from a fiscal point of view, that’s an issue — I need to understand how they operate and within what European framework they operate,” she said in Berlin on Tuesday.