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MNI BRIEF: Blog Presented Comms Challenge, ECB's Lane Admits

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European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane stepped back from writing his post-policy meeting blogs last Autumn to counter any suggestions he was better able to explain monetary policy than president Christine Lagarde, he said in an interview published at the weekend.

"It was not my intention to give that impression, and it's wrong," Lane told Suddeutsche Zeitung. "I stopped doing the blog on the day after the press conference in the autumn, because if it led to perceptions of difference, then it was problematic."

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