The European Central Bank is expected to hold interest rates steady this week for its third straight meeting, with inflation under control and the long-struggling eurozone economy looking healthier.

Following a year-long series of cuts, the ECB has kept its key deposit rate on hold at two percent since July.

Inflation has settled around the central bank's two-percent target in recent months, as Europe has weathered US President Donald Trump's tariff onslaught better than initially feared.

ECB officials still face many headwinds: France's political crisis has pushed up borrowing costs in the eurozone's second-biggest economy, and the risk of a flare-up in trade tensions lingers.

But for now, the central bank is "in a good place", ECB President Christine Lagarde said in a September speec

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