Today our Governing Council decided on monetary policy, determining what’s needed to achieve stable prices in the euro area.

Listen to President Christine Lagarde present today’s decisions. The statement also covers:

- how the economy is performing
- how we expect prices to develop
- the risks to the economic outlook
- the dynamics behind financial and monetary conditions

Published and recorded during our press conference on 15 December 2022.

Our monetary policy statement at a glance, 15 December 2022
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pressconf/visual-mps/2022/html/mopo_statement_explained_december.en.html

Christine Lagarde, Luis de Guindos: Monetary policy statement (with Q&A), 15 December 2022
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pressconf/2022/html/ecb.is221215~197ac630ae.en.html

Monetary policy decisions, 15 December 2022
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2022/html/ecb.mp221215~f3461d7b6e.en.html

Combined monetary policy decisions and statement, 15 December 2022
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pressconf/shared/pdf/ecb.ds221215~db4079c498.en.pdf

Macroeconomic projections, 15 December 2022
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/projections/html/index.en.html

European Central Bank
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/html/index.en.html

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