ECB lowers key interest rates: What awaits us in 2025?

Especially since that is already a joke in itself, because the inflation target is set at 2% and thus contradicts the word "price stability." Prices rising by 2% per year are everything but stable.

That is the definition of price stability, because with the +/-2% there is a - as it is nicely put - medium-term calculable basis for companies and consumers. Too little inflation or deflation is bad, too high is also bad. And for the EU, 2% is considered appropriate. In Switzerland, for example, 0-2% is considered appropriate to ensure healthy economic development. That is why the Swiss are already afraid of possible negative interest rates from the central bank, as these have negative effects on price stability and thus on economic development.

Since everyone is only fixated on my personal definition of stability, the rest must be correct...

Since everyone is only attacking my personal definition of stability, the rest must be correct...

Well...

Yes. That’s why there is always such a fuss when a new "currency guardian" is elected. The southern countries don't want someone from the north and vice versa. This is definitely not because the currency guardian makes decisions completely free from any political and national bias solely with regard to stability.

First of all, there have only been four presidents since 1998. "Always" so much fuss is relative. Regardless, the ECB president makes no decisions on their own. Read up on how the ECB operates. The ECB Council makes decisions – i.e., all countries involved in the euro.

Of course politics and economics also play a role... and primarily those of the country one comes from. A German or Dutch ECB president would act completely differently than an Italian one has done in the past and a French woman is doing now. The exit from the zero interest rate phase was also not found because it would have already ruined the southern countries in the middle of the decade.

An ECB president does not act. He cannot do so alone. See above.