Christine Lagarde

Lagarde says ECB will do everything to keep inflation in check during Middle East war

[PARIS] The European Central Bank will do everything to keep inflation under control, despite the current surge in energy prices, its President Christine Lagarde told France 2 television on Tuesday.

Questions over Lagarde’s future are swirling after a report that she’ll step aside before French elections so President Emmanuel Macron can help find her replacement.

Economists expect Lagarde to exit early, handing ECB job to Knot

More than half of respondents expect the Frenchwoman to step down this year

ECB President Christine Lagarde speaks during the National Association of Business Economics economic policy conference in Washington, DC, Feb 23, 2026.

ECB‘s Lagarde sticks with ‘good place’ mantra

[FRANKFURT] Euro zone inflation and the European Central Bank’s interest rate policy remain in a “good place,” ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Monday, repeating her long standing guidance, whi...

European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde's position has been under scrutiny after it was reported that she planned to step down before next spring’s French presidential election.

ECB’s Lagarde receives 140,000 euros from Bank for International Settlements

This comes despite the central bank’s ban on third-party payments to staff

ECB President Christine Lagarde says the World Economic Forum is “one of the many options” she is considering once she leaves the central bank.

Christine Lagarde intends to complete her term at ECB, she tells WSJ 

The chief reassures policymakers she is still focusing on leading Europe’s most important financial institution

Christine Lagarde’s non-renewable term at the ECB runs until Oct 31, 2027.

ECB President Christine Lagarde expected to leave bank before term expires next year: report

The FT report comes only a week after Bank of France governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that he would step down in June this year

ECB President Christine Lagarde said: "We should be identifying, much more so than we have probably in the past, the weaknesses, the sore points, the dependencies and the autonomy."

World order changing, not rupturing, finance chiefs say

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had called on nations to accept that a rules-based global order is over

Klaas Knot, whose stint as head of the Netherlands’ central bank ended last year, leads in the ranking as the next ECB chief.

Knot most likely heir to Lagarde at ECB

Knot was one of the ECB’s most influential officials during his 14 years on the governing council

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said tensions between Europe and the US will hasten European integration.

Trump could kick start European integration, Lagarde predicts

[FRANKFURT] Trust between Europe and the US is being undermined by political tensions but this will accelerate long-stalled European integration, Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Centr...

“With a track record of around 2 per cent inflation and a medium-term projection at 2 per cent, I would say again, that we are in a good place,” Lagarde.

ECB to probably lift growth forecast next week, Lagarde says

Policymakers are increasingly convinced that borrowing costs can be left unchanged for the foreseeable future