SPEECH  Hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the Hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament Brussels, 26 September 2022 It is a pleasure to be back here in Brussels with you for our third hearing this year.
This forecast serves as an ingredient—important though not exclusive— in the formulation of the situational assessment that forms the basis for the Monetary Committee’s decisions. The forecast indicates expected growth of 3.5 percent this year (as we said, the past is still before us), 3.2 percent in 2017 and 3.1 percent in 2018.