{"id":432275,"date":"2026-02-18T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432275\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:45:08","slug":"ecb-says-lagarde-remains-committed-to-her-role-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432275\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB says Lagarde remains committed to her role as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">This relates to the earlier story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/centralbank\/ecb-president-lagarde-reportedly-poised-to-leave-the-central-bank-before-her-term-expires-20260218\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-4026719d=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ECB president Lagarde reportedly poised to leave the central bank before her term expires<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">The central bank refuting the report isn&#8217;t surprising and with things like this, it will never be confirmed until it is officially announced. So, don&#8217;t expect any real confirmation by the ECB on this matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">In June last year, we saw a similar response by the central bank after Lagarde was linked with taking up a role at the World Economic Forum (WEF). The report at the time also speculated that she would be leaving the central bank in &#8220;early 2027&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">The ECB did not confirm nor deny that, in a somewhat similar manner here, although Lagarde did come out to say that &#8220;I regret to tell you that you\u2019re not about to see the back of me&#8221;. Yet, here we are now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This relates to the earlier story here: ECB president Lagarde reportedly poised to leave the central bank before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-432275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}