Europe Intelligence Brief — March 19, 2026

2026-03-19 - 19:20

What Matters Today 1 Lagarde kills “good place” — ECB revises inflation to 2.6%, slashes growth to 0.9%; Nagel vows to act “quickly and decisively”; staff projections show stagflation is now the baseline; markets price hikes by year-end The European Central Bank held at 2.0% on Wednesday but the press conference was a demolition of