Bundesbank Executive Board member Sabine Mauderer warned against missing the right moment for exiting expansionary monetary policy. In her speech at the Euro Finance Week in Frankfurt am Main, she stressed that monetary policy normalisation takes time.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann expects Brexit to place a strain on Germany's economy. It is in the interests of both parties, he says, for the EU and the United Kingdom to quickly enter into level-headed negotiations on their future relationship.

From the point of view of Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, there is no need to loosen the accommodative monetary policy any further. In remarks delivered at the third cash symposium of the Deutsche Bundesbank, he noted that, instead, the forces of growth in the euro area needed to be strengthened and that the measures already introduced should be given time to unleash their impact.

At the Bundesbank’s Spring Conference with the title “Monetary, financial and fiscal stability” Jens Weidmann stressed the need for a better understanding of the interplay of different policy areas to achieve and maintain macroeconomic stability.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has drawn attention to the dangers of an even longer period of negative interest rates. "Holding interest rates lower for even longer would aggravate the risks and side effects of a very expensionary monetary policy", he said at this year‘s European Banking Congress in Frankfurt.