Key figures at a glance
(*) Effective from 8 March 2006
Marginal lending facility *
3.50 %
Main refinancing operations
Minimum bid rate *
2.50 %
Deposit facility *
1.50 %
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09/03/2006 - Speech:
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi:
Independence and accountability of supervision in the european financial market,
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07/03/2006 - Press release:
Visit by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania,
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10/03/2006 - Working paper no. 596:
The effects of EMU on structural reforms in labour and product markets , 583 kb, en
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10/03/2006 - Working paper no. 594:
The euro's trade effects , 1874 kb, en
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10/03/2006 - Legal working paper no. 2:
The application of multilingualism in the European Union context , 928 kb, en
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09/03/2006 - Monthly Bulletin:
Monthly Bulletin, March 2006, 1675 kb, en
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08/03/2006 - Occasional paper no. 43:
The accumulation of foreign reserves , 815 kb, en
10/03/2006 - ECB Law: Opinion on the appointment of a member of the ECB’s Executive Board (CON/2006/14)
OJ C 58, 10.3.2006, p. 12,
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09/03/2006 - ECB Law: Opinion on the integration of banking, capital markets, insurance and pension funds supervision (CON/2006/15)
Poland, 9.3.2006,
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07/03/2006 - ECB Law: Opinion on the revision of the ESA95 transmission programme of national accounts data (CON/2006/12)
OJ C 55, 7.3.2006, p. 61,
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07/03/2006 - ECB Law: Opinion on the temporal coverage of price collection in the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) (CON/2006/13)
OJ C 55, 7.3.2006, p. 63,
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