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Key figures at a glance
Marginal lending facility	0.30 %
Main refinancing operations (fixed rate)	0.05 %
Deposit facility	− 0.20 %
Effective from 10 September 2014
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Online and in real time: ECB press conference, from Cyprus.

Starting at 2.30 p.m. CET the ECB President and Vice-President explain the Governing Council's monetary policy decisions and answer journalists' questions.

27/02/2015 Speech: Vítor Constâncio: Central banks with large balance sheets (slides from the presentation), en
25/02/2015 Speech: Mario Draghi: Introductory statement to the plenary debate of the European Parliament on the ECB’s Annual Report 2013, en
24/02/2015 Press release: New €20 banknote unveiled in Frankfurt today, bg . cs . da . de . el . en . es . et . fi . fr . hr . hu . it . lt . lv . mt . nl . pl . pt . ro . sk . sl . sv
24/02/2015 Speech: Mario Draghi: Unveiling of the new €20 banknote, en
20/02/2015 Press release: ECB announces publication of a new Guideline on the implementation of monetary policy, en

26/02/2015 - Statistical press release: Monetary developments in the euro area, 102 kB, en

03/03/2015

Publication: Letter from the ECB President to Mr Dimitrios Papadimoulis, MEP, on monetary policy

ENGLISH

OTHER LANGUAGES 1
EΛΛΗΝΙΚΆ
03/03/2015

Publication: Letter from the ECB President to Ms Mara Bizzotto, MEP, on monetary policy

ENGLISH

OTHER LANGUAGES 1
ITALIANO
03/03/2015

Publication: Letter from the ECB President to Mr Luke Ming Flanagan, MEP, on several aspects of the Irish adjustment programme

ENGLISH
03/03/2015

Publication: Letter from the ECB President to Mr Jonas Fernandez, MEP, on monetary policy

ENGLISH

OTHER LANGUAGES 1
ESPAÑOL
02/03/2015

Publication: Virtual currency schemes - a further analysis

ENGLISH
27/02/2015

Publication: Eurosystem oversight report 2014

ENGLISH
25/02/2015

Publication: Guide for the assessment of card payment schemes against the oversight standards

ENGLISH

02/03/2015: Opinion on the independence of Banka Slovenije and of the members of its decision-making bodies (CON/2015/8)
Slovenia,
ENGLISH
OTHER LANGUAGES 1
Slovenščina

26/02/2015: Decision of the ECB of 11 February 2015 on the methodology and procedures for the determination and collection of data regarding fee factors used to calculate annual supervisory fees (ECB/2015/7)
ENGLISH

25/02/2015: Opinion on macro-prudential policy strategy (CON/2015/7)
Lithuania,
ENGLISH
OTHER LANGUAGES 1
Lietuvių

25/02/2015: Decision (EU) 2015/299 of the ECB of 10 February 2015 amending Decision ECB/2014/34 on measures relating to targeted longer-term refinancing operations (ECB/2015/5)
ENGLISH
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20/02/2015: Guideline of the ECB of 19 December 2014 on the implementation of the Eurosystem monetary policy framework (recast) (ECB/2014/60)
ENGLISH

20/02/2015: Decision of the ECB of 12 February 2015 amending Decision ECB/2004/2 adopting the Rules of Procedure of the ECB (ECB/2015/8)
ENGLISH

18/02/2015: Decision of the ECB of 18 February 2015 repealing Decision ECB/2013/6 on the rules concerning the use as collateral for Eurosystem monetary policy operations of own-use uncovered government-guaranteed bank bonds, Decision ECB/2013/35 on additional measures relating to Eurosystem refinancing operations and eligibility of collateral and Articles 1, 3 and 4 of Decision ECB/2014/23 on the remuneration of deposits, balances and holdings of excess reserves (ECB/2015/9)
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