The European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said at the press conference today:

• The ECB will keep interest rate at the present levels for an extended period of time;
  
• "The Governing Council is unanimous in its commitment to also using unconventional instruments" if required, to address risks of a longer period of low inflation;
  
• Geopolitical risks, developments in emerging market economies and global financial markets may have the potential to affect economy in the Eurozone negatively;
  
• The exchange rate of the euro is not a policy target;
  
• If banks don't lend after receiving loans from the European Central Bank, they will have to pay the money back;
  
• The frequency of ECB's monetary policy meetings will change to a six-week cycle from January 2015;
  
• The ECB will start publishing meeting minutes from January 2015;
  
• There are further downside risk relates to insufficient structural reforms in euro area countries;
  
• The economic outlook for the Eurozone remain on the downside;
  
• The economy in the Eurozone recovered moderately in the second quarter;
  
• The ECB is interested in asset-backed securities.