Jens Weidmann

The Academy of Athens selected European Central Bank President Mario Draghi as its foreign partner in the sector of economic studies and economic and monetary policy on Thursday.
"With his work he has contributed decisively toward the preservation of monetary and financial stability, and the support of economic growth in Europe and internationally," a statement by the Academy read.

The completion of Greece's third and final adjustment program on August 20 is not the end of the road for the country's reform efforts but a "milestone on a long way to recovery," the governor of Germany's central bank, Jens Weidmann, told a banking event in Athens on Thursday.

The European Central Bank could end its bond purchases this year if the economic upswing continues, taking another step on a long road to unwinding unconventional stimulus, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said on Tuesday.

The finance ministers and central bank governors of France and Germany called for the policy and monetary implications of crypto-currencies to be placed on the agenda of the upcoming G20 meeting of the largest advanced and developing economies.

Without a post-bailout program framework, the special status allowing Greek banks to enjoy European Central Bank financing will be lost, ECB governing council member Benoit Coeure is said to have told Greek bankers on Monday in Frankfurt, while Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann also expressed support for such a framework for Greece.

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.

According to financial newspaper ‘Wall Street Journal’, the new quantitative easing measures announced Thursday by European Central bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi are opposed by the German central bank, Bundesbank. The paper cites a source from the German bank as saying that the new round of money printing will create a vicious circle of high expectations and disappointments in the market.

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.

One of the most popular explanations behind the eurozone?s, and specifically Greece?s, woes is that the common currency area, unlike the United States, lacks a fiscal union. I was a firm adherent of this view until recently, but recent research has led me to question my views.