Like my three predecessors, Ernst Welteke, Axel Weber and Jens Weidmann, it is very important to me to communicate and interact with media representatives. In times of high inflation, it is all the more necessary to explain and contextualise what pushes inflation higher and how effective monetary policy measures are.
As journalists, you have a particularly important role to play here as the link between an institution such as the Bundesbank and the general public. That's because, in turn, communication with the public is key to the effectiveness of monetary policy and of economic policy in general. A current example is the proposal put forward by the gas price commission.