04/05/2026 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 30 April, Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), did not rule out the possibility of a rise in key interest rates at the next meeting of the Governing Council, scheduled for early June. “We are certainly moving away from the baseline”, she acknowledged, even though on Thursday the governors decided for the seventh time in a row to leave the deposit facility rates, the main refinancing operations and the marginal lending facility unchanged at 2.00, 2.15 and 2.40% respectively. “We made an informed decision on the basis of yet insufficient information”, said the President of the monetary institute. And she added: “While the hard data is broadly in line with our projection and what we discussed here back in March, [...] there is such uncertainty that we need to understand and revisit all of that at our next monetary policy meeting”. See the EU Council’s decision: https://aeur.eu/f/lss (BD)