"I want to be clear, at the moment
there is no consensus on a half-point rate hike
."
He said this in an interview with Bloomberg TV from the World Economic Forum Francois
Villeroy de Galhau
, governor of the Bank of France and a member of the ECB Council, in response to the push of some fellow 'hawks' who would like a more aggressive normalization of monetary policy .
The ECB "must move in the right direction, of course. But we must not be hasty or panic," ECB President
Christine Lagarde
said in an interview with Bloomberg TV to the World Economic Forum , after indications of a path According to rumors, a gradual rise in rates had caused discontent among the 'hawkish' governors in the ECB Council who are pressing for a more decisive response to inflation.