Eine virtuelle Hausführung, ein kurzes Gespräch mit Bundesbankpräsident Jens Weidmann und einen Goldbarren zum Anfassen: Beim Tag der offenen Tür der Bundesbank konnten die Besucherinnen und Besucher einiges erleben.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann recently met some 140 school students from across Germany. The students, aged between 17 and 25, asked him questions about the Bundesbank’s tasks; some of the answers they received came as a surprise.

In the view of Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, the ECB Governing Council’s forward guidance has contributed to lowering long-term interest rates and stimulating the euro area economy. However, at the 2019 European Banking Congress in Frankfurt, he also highlighted the risks and side effects of a highly expansionary monetary policy. ECB President Christine Lagarde called for increased public investment.

Du point de vue du président de la Deutsche Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, l’État a agi pendant la crise du coronavirus de manière rapide et intégrale. Mais, selon lui, il sera tout aussi important de trouver une sortie du mode de crise. La crise demanderait à la politique économique et budgétaire de réaliser un acte d’équilibre, à savoir de soutenir à brève échéance l’économie, sans entraver la transformation nécessaire et sans perdre de vue les défis à plus long terme. 

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has given a speech emphasising the good cooperation between the Bundesbank and Goethe University Frankfurt’s House of Finance. In his speech, held on the occasion of the House of Finance’s 10-year anniversary, Mr Weidmann said that the exchange between the two institutions had borne fruit on many levels.

Students from various countries discussed Europe and European monetary union with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, and Klaas Knot, President of De Nederlandsche Bank, at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

For the euro’s 20th birthday, the Bundesbank invited 200 young people to discuss the future of Europe and the single currency under the slogan “Your Europe – make something of it!”

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has underscored the importance of central banks’ independence to their success. “In order to defend their independence, central banks should interpret their mandates narrowly and seek the support of the broad public,” he said in a speech he delivered in Pretoria.

The finance ministers and central bank governors of the G20 countries will be meeting in Baden-Baden on 17 and 18 March. Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann will report on the outcomes of the meeting at a press conference to be held afterwards.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has thanked Joachim Nagel for his work in the Bundesbank's Executive Board. Nagel left the Executive Board at the end of April 2016 and, with effect from 1 November 2016, has taken on the post of General Manager of KfW.