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© Daniel – stock.adobe.comClimate-related disclosures 2025: improved climate performance by Bundesbank’s financial investments
12.06.2025 DE
The greenhouse gas emissions of the Bundesbank’s euro-denominated own portfolio (euro portfolio) and reserve assets have been in decline on aggregate over the past years, the Bank reports in its latest climate-related disclosures. In this report, the Bank looks in particular at the climate performance of its own financial investments. For the first time, the Bundesbank is also disclosing greenhouse gas metrics on its shares of the Eurosystem’s monetary policy holdings of corporate and covered bonds.
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© Deutsche BundesbankBundesbank mourns passing of Julia Dingwort-Nusseck
11.06.2025 DE
The Deutsche Bundesbank mourns the passing of Julia Dingwort-Nusseck. The former President of the Land Central Bank of Lower Saxony and the first woman on the Bundesbank’s Central Bank Council passed away on 7 June 2025 at the age of 103.
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© Kalyakan / AdobeStockThe Bundesbank expects the economy to stagnate in the second quarter
26.05.2025 DE
Economic output in Germany was up in the first quarter of 2025, the Bundesbank writes in its latest Monthly Report. Exports of goods, in particular, but probably also investment and private consumption increased. However, the Bundesbank economists expect the economy to more or less stagnate in the second quarter. This is due to the wide range of burdens that persist and the additional headwinds caused by the tightening of US tariff policy.
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© Agentur PhotothekPress conference at the G7 meeting in Canada with Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel
23.05.2025 DE
At a meeting of the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel addressed the geopolitical challenges currently being faced. Speaking at a joint press conference with the new Federal Minister of Finance Lars Klingbeil in Banff, Canada, Mr Nagel said that while global economic activity had still been fairly robust at the start of the year, benefiting from the anticipatory effects of announced tariffs, the world economy was now struggling in the face of tightened US tariff policies and great uncertainty.
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© Oliver RuetherBundesbank symposium: Focus on geopolitical risks and simplifying regulation
15.05.2025 DE
This year’s Bundesbank symposium “Banking supervision in dialogue” focused on geopolitical risks, artificial intelligence and streamlining bureaucracy. Bundesbank Executive Board member Michael Theurer believes it is important to have a nuanced debate on regulation in order to increase efficiency and reduce “red tape” without lowering standards. The industry meeting in Frankfurt was attended by around 450 supervisors and banking industry representatives.
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Chemnitz is Capital of Culture 2025 – Bundesbank events
29.04.2025 DE
Chemnitz is the European Capital of Culture 2025. To mark the occasion, the Regional Office in Saxony and Thuringia is organising a range of events at the Bundesbank’s Chemnitz branch. In addition to a coin exhibition and an art exhibition, there will be a panel discussion with Bundesbank Executive Board member Burkard Balz.
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© Juliane Sonntag/BMF/photothek.deNagel: “We know what we’ve got with the IMF and the World Bank”
24.04.2025 DE
“This is one of the most important Spring Meetings,”
Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said at a press breakfast with Germany’s acting Federal Finance Minister Jörg Kukies on the occasion of the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. “We know what we’ve got, and what we’ve had, with the
IMFand the World Bank. Multilateralism is a core element of the global economic order.”
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© picture alliance/Westendó | Kerstin BittnerGerman economic activity stabilised slightly at the beginning of the year, but outlook significantly gloomier
24.04.2025 DE
“Economic output in Germany is likely to have increased slightly in the first quarter of 2025, but could suffer a setback in the second quarter,” the Bundesbank writes in its latest Monthly Report. Construction and industrial output, for instance, were up recently. Retail sales also continued to grow in January and February. However, according to the Bundesbank’s economists, the outlook for the second quarter is gloomy, not least given the US administration’s tariff policy.
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© Tom Grill / Getty ImagesBundesbank study: Wealth in Germany grows in nominal terms but declines in real terms, with no change in inequality
10.04.2025 DE
Between 2021 and 2023, the average amount of wealth per household in Germany grew slightly in nominal terms, but declined in real terms, i.e. when adjusted for inflation. This is the finding of a Bundesbank study that regularly examines household wealth and finances. Nevertheless, net wealth remains at a higher level in both nominal and real terms than in 2017, when the Bundesbank carried out its last survey before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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© Marcus KaufholdEuro pavilion: Bundesbank creates space to engage and interact
26.03.2025 DE
“The better society is informed about financial topics, the better we, as central banks, can explain our monetary policy decisions,” Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said at the opening of the Bundesbank’s euro pavilion. This converted event space at the Bundesbank’s Central Office in the heart of Frankfurt adds to the Bank’s existing outreach activities to engage and interact with interested members of the general public.