European Central Bank interest rates will keep falling as policymakers are confident that inflation will stabilise at the bank's 2% target, Finnish central bank chief Olli Rehn said on Wednesday. "We are now confident that inflation will stabilise at the target as predicted and monetary policy will stop being restrictive in the near future,

The European Central Bank is on track to lower inflation and cut interest rates but needs to have a deep think about how much further and how quickly policy should be eased, ECB board member Isabel Schnabel said over the weekend.

Plans by the European Central Bank to push ahead with interest-rate cuts are withstanding the early jolts in US economic policy driven by Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

The European Central Bank should continue to lower interest rates to about 2% as inflation in the euro zone was generally under control, ECB policymaker Mario Centeno said on Wednesday.