The ECB’s thinking of a way to loosen the penalties for Europe’s banks, but not to abolish. At the same time, says the turnaround in interest rates. A normalization of monetary policy.

Central Bank-Latin is difficult to decipher. The guardian of the currency, speak in phrases, and clauses that are not for the normal consumer is always immediately understandable. Also, the European Central Bank is no exception, although currently she is writing transparency always very big on the flags.

To get a better picture of the discussions in the ECB-Council, are, therefore, the protocols of the meetings is often helpful. Since 2015, the ECB has published these summaries in each case four weeks after the Meeting. In anonymised Form, they trace the course of the conversation and thus in addition to the immediately after the meeting held a press conference with an Overview of the topics covered.