Otmar Issing, one the brightest economic brains in Germany and high priest of monetary orthodoxy, will soon be sharing some of his global economic wisdom with Goldman Sachs . The former chief ...

Mr Issing was at the central bank when the currency was launched in 1999 Some members of the eurozone may have to leave the bloc as the debt crisis continues, according to one of the architects of ...

Prof Otmar Issing told the BBC's Wake up to Money that faultlines across the eurozone remain, citing economic weakness in Greece, Portugal and Italy. The European Central Bank's first chief ...

Simply sign up to the Eurozone economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Europe’s monetary union will be put in danger by the misguided response of eurozone governments to the ...

Otmar Issing, a founding member of the executive board of the European Central Bank, gave an extraordinary interview to a finance journal in which he said "the house of cards will collapse" when ...

Otmar Issing, president of the Center for Financial Studies, speaks at the ECB and its Watchers conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, March 17, 2022. The European Central Bank warned that ...

Many people can take credit for the idea of a single currency in Europe, but one man in particular was responsible for making it a reality. Otmar Issing, the first chief economist of the European ...

Last week's rate rise will not hurt euro-zone growth, European Central Bank chief economist Mr Otmar Issing said last night Last week's rate rise will not hurt euro-zone growth, European Central ...

The euro zone is likely to reach its two to 2.5 per cent trend growth rate next year, while inflation will subside, European Central Bank chief economist Mr Otmar Issing said in an interview today.

LONDON (MarketWatch) — Otmar Issing, the former chief economist of the European Central Bank and the German Bundesbank, is a genial number-cruncher who believes in the overall benefits of ...