One of the pioneers of European Central Bank monetary policy has a stark warning for officials about the threat of more inflation bearing down on the region’s economy. Otmar Issing, the former ...

The faltering Lisbon strategy aimed at improving the EU’s competitiveness is just another measure of the gap between rhetoric and reality. So he is not going to get carried away by either the good ...

Professor Otmar Issing was formerly chief economist at the European Central Bank, and when he speaks it is wise to listen. In an interview with a specialist journal, he describes the euro as “muddling ...

The euro zone has squandered precious time in making reforms during a time of central bank support for the economy, the president of the Center for Financial Studies, Otmar Issing, told CNBC on ...

He argues Greece should default for the long term benefit of the common currency One of the architects of the now-stricken euro says the European Central Bank was aware of tensions in the common ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Conventional wisdom in Brussels holds that nothing helps the cause of European integration like a crisis: the ...

(Bloomberg) — When Otmar Issing became chief economist of the fledgling European Central Bank a quarter of a century ago, he was greeted with a letter from one of the project’s leading skeptics.

Simply sign up to the US & Canadian companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Otmar Issing, the former chief economist at the European Central Bank, is to join Goldman Sachs as an ...