FRANKFURT (MNI) – The European Central Bank’s Governing Council
will hold its October 7 monetary policy meeting in Frankfurt and not in
Amsterdam as originally planned, the ECB said in a statement early
Thursday.
It said the change was intended to facilitate travel by Eurosystem
central bankers to the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington
D.C., starting October 8.
A verbatim text of the ECB’s statement follows:
The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has
decided to hold its meeting of 7 October 2010 in Frankfurt, and not in
Amsterdam as originally planned.
The change of venue is to allow appropriate time for the Eurosystem
central banks’ delegation to arrive in Washington for the 2010 Annual
Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, as
well as for other related meetings, which are due to start on Friday, 8
October 2010.
No alternative date for an external Governing Council meeting in
2010 has been scheduled and therefore all remaining Governing Council
meetings this year will take place at the ECB’s premises in Frankfurt.
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