Mounting borrowing at the European level could end up leaving national indicators such as the deficit and debt ratios less informative in the future, the Bundesbank warns in the current issue of its Monthly Report. This is why complete and transparent statistical reporting also needs to be ensured at the European level, the Bank’s experts argue.

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) used its meeting on 10 December 2020 to adopt a comprehensive package of monetary policy measures in response to the economic fallout from the resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic in the euro area.

The Bundesbank expects the German economy to grow strongly again after a limited setback in the final quarter of 2020 and first quarter of 2021. According to current projections, real gross domestic product could pick up sharply in the following two years and reach its pre-crisis level again in early 2022. This is predicated on the pandemic containment measures being quickly loosened from spring 2021 and ultimately expiring altogether in the early months of 2022.

Im Oktober 2020 lag das Emissionsvolumen am deutschen Rentenmarkt mit einem Bruttoabsatz von 128,8 Mrd € deutlich unter dem Wert des Vormonats (179,8 Mrd €). Nach Abzug der höheren Tilgungen und unter Berücksichtigung der Eigenbestandsveränderungen der Emittenten wurden inländische Schuldverschreibungen für netto 18,0 Mrd € getilgt.

Auf der heutigen Sitzung fasste der EZB-Rat die folgenden geldpolitischen Beschlüsse.