ECB policy on path to normalization amid higher inflation: Villeroy

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FILE PHOTO: Francois Villeroy de Galhau arrives at the Petruzzelli Theatre during a G7 for Financial ministers in the southern Italian city of Bari
FILE PHOTO: Francois Villeroy de Galhau arrives at the Petruzzelli Theatre during a G7 for Financial ministers in the southern Italian city of Bari, Italy May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

March 18, 2018

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is on a path towards normalizing its ultra-easy monetary policy as inflation in the euro zone accelerates, albeit slower than expected, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Sunday.

“We are making progress on the inflation front… although a bit slower than we had expected,” Villeroy de Galhau, the governor of France’s central bank, said before attending a G20 summit in Buenos Aires. “Our policy is on a path to normalization.”

(Reporting By Francesco Canepa; Editing by Andrea Ricci)

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