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ECB’s Villeroy Expects Inflation to Be at 2% Early Next Year

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Euro-area consumer-price growth probably will be at the European Central Bank’s 2% target in early 2025, according the Governing Council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau.

“We’re on a good way to defeat inflation and this is actually good news,” he told France Inter radio on Saturday. “There may be some temporary rebounds in coming months, but that’s a technical effect. Baring large external shocks, we’ll be a 2% of inflation next year, probably rather toward the beginning of next year.”