The ECB Governing Council meeting will be held at the Bank of Greece on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 October, hosted by the Governor of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras.

The Governors of the national central banks of the euro area countries and the six members of the ECB Executive Board will meet in the main building of the Bank of Greece and will take decisions on monetary policy.

A press conference will follow, in which the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, assisted by ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos and Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras, will explain the decisions on monetary policy.

The ECB Governing Council usually meets at the ECB’s headquarters in Frankfurt or remotely, and once a year the meeting is hosted by a national central bank.

This is the third ECB Governing Council meeting hosted by the Bank of Greece, the first being in 2005 and the second in 2008.