MNI BRIEF: ECB Governing Council Unanimous For Hold-Lagarde

The European Central Bank's Governing Council was unanimously in favour of holding rates, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Thursday.

"In our Governing Council discussions on risks to inflation ... There are different positions, and different views and different analysis ... But I'm happy to say that in this meeting in Firenze there was absolute unanimity," Lagarde told a news conference. (See MNI INTERVIEW: ECB's Wunsch Sees Less Chance Of Another Cut)

While some downside risks to growth have abated, there are upside risks to inflation from supply-chain bottlenecks, Lagarde said.

The European Central Bank kept its three key interest rates unchanged earlier on Thursday, leaving the benchmark deposit rate at 2.0%.