Mario Draghi: ECB press conference – introductory statement Introductory statement by Mr Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, and Mr Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, 2 June 2016. *  *  *  Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice-President and I are very pleased to welcome you to our press conference.
I would like to thank Governor Nowotny for his kind hospitality and express our special gratitude to his staff for the excellent organisation of today’s meeting of the Governing Council. We will now report on the outcome of our meeting. Based on our regular economic and monetary analyses, we decided to keep the key ECB interest rates unchanged.