"If I had anything to announce, you would be the first to know after my grandchildren," asserted the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, when a Bloomberg journalist asked her if she would leave the institution to go to the World Economic Forum. The rumor about a possible early departure of Lagarde has been circulating for months in the economic press. In February, the Financial Times reported that she was considering stepping down before her term ended in October 2027, to allow Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz to influence the choice of her successor before the 2027 French presidential elections.

A new call for European integration, this time from the former governor of the Bank of Spain and future director of the Bank for International Settlements, Pablo Hernández de Cos, has called for the elimination of trade barriers within Europe as a measure to survive the tariff policies of US President Donald Trump. He said this at the Annual Meeting of the Círculo de Economía (Economics Circle), where he asserted that "in a context of potential deglobalization, this entails a loss of productivity, and the way to compensate for this is with greater European integration."