German Federal Bank

The U.S. administration should blame itself rather than Germany for a recent strengthening of the dollar against the euro, the head of Germany's Bundesbank said on Feb. 7.

Jens Weidmann said comments by a top trade adviser of U.S. President Donald Trump that Germany was exploiting the United States and its European partners with an overly weak euro were "more than absurd." 

Italian PM Mateo Renzi unleashed some tough criticism against Austria and Germany, during an interview on Italian TV. Renzi blasted the head of the German central bank ‘Deutsche Bundesbank’, Jens Weidmann, underlining that the ‘time they were lecturing us us is over’. ‘The director has so many problems to be concerned with.

The president of Germany's Bundesbank on March 19 criticised the latest package of stimulus measures by the ECB including slashing rates still further, warning against "reckless" moves and unintended fallout.

President of the German Bundesbank Jens Weidmann said deflationary concerns in the Eurozone had subsided in a press conference. At the same time preliminary data published by Eurostat indicated that the consumer price index show a -0.1% deflation.

Greeks might be on the verge of total impoverishment, but the German households are wealthier than ever, according to report released Monday by the German central bank, the Bundesbank. The total income of Germans in the first quarter of 2015 amounted to a record 5,212 trillion euros, an increase of 140 billion in comparison to 2014.

 Weidmann increases pressure on Frankfurt to toughen its stance

By Yiannis Papadoyiannis

By Alessandro Speciale

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said the provision of Emergency Liquidity Assistance by the European Central Bank for Greek lenders raises ?serious? concerns about monetary financing, which is prohibited under European Union rules.

The head of the Bundesbank expressed serious concern about providing continued emergency funding to Greek banks in talks with his peers this week, a person familiar with the discussion said.

The euro will not fall if Greece quits the single currency area, German central bank chief Jens Weidmann said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday.

The risk of Greece becoming insolvent is "increasing by the day," the head of the German central bank or Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, said on Thursday.