23/05/2022 (Agence Europe) – The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, considered it “likely”, on Monday 23 May, that the negative territory of the deposit facility rate, currently set at -0.50%, will be removed “by the end of the third quarter” of 2022, in her blog published on the European Union institution’s website (see EUROPE B12951A24). In order to respond to the surge in inflation exacerbated by soaring energy prices, a first rate hike will be...