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Two percent is a goal, not a natural constant

2025's ECB strategy reiterates the medium-term inflation target of two percent. A target is not a guaranteed annual price development.

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RESEARCH NOTE / 2025Grundlage

Wirtschaft & Arbeit

External research · MSD classification
Keine Behauptung eines eigenen Versuchs.

01 / EINORDNUNG

What this finding means.

Grenzen des Nachweises

Personal shopping carts, energy prices and individual technology prices can differ significantly from the general price index.

Our derivation for a pilot operation

Check long-term project values ​​with multiple inflation and interest rate assumptions instead of promising a single future number.

This derivation is an editorial recommendation from MSD. It is not a further result of the study cited.

Source and version

ECB · Strategy statement 2025 · Publication/reference year 2025. Researched on 12.11.2026.

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