I am very pleased to join the ranks of the Bundesbank presidents who, starting when the euro was introduced back in 1998, have been invited by the International Club of Frankfurt Economic Journalists to meet with its members for an exchange of views and ideas.
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.