Sources: BBC
Latvia will ask the European Central Bank not to renew the mandate of ECB Governing Council member Ilmārs Rimšēvičs, the head of the central Bank of Latvia since 2001, amid an ECB payment moratorium and an U.S. graft investigation into Latvia's third-largest lender, ABLV. On 19 January, Rimšēvičs was released on bail. 2018-02-20
The European Central Bank increased the cap on cash available to Greek banks through emergency liquidity assistance, as those banks continue to experience steady withdrawals. Greek citizens have withdrawn over 3 billion Euros in the last month. 2015-06-19
The new Greek government, represented by finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, meets with Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the Eurogroup, and declares that Greece now rejects any further cooperation with its main international lenders known as the troika (the Eurogroup, the IMF, and the ECB); instead, it wants to negotiate directly with other European countries. 2015-01-30
The European Central Bank announces an aggressive money-creation program, printing more than one trillion new euros. 2015-01-22
A member of the governing council of the European Central Bank says that the ECB may yet cut interest rates still further, into negative territory. 2014-03-22
An executive board member of the European Central Bank, Benoît Cœuré, says that the ECB is determined to secure the continued decline in real interest rates in the months ahead. 2014-03-13
A Reuters poll of economic forecasters finds that they are more worried about deflation across the Eurozone than is the ECB. 2014-02-13
Greece secures an additional 6.2 billion euros from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund despite warnings that the Greek government is moving too slow to reform the government. 2013-07-9
Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, confirms the overhaul of euro banknotes, beginning with the €5 note. 2012-11-8
Leading European Central Bank policymakers state that crisis-hit Greece may be able to abandon the euro without compromising the wider eurozone. 2012-05-12