FRANKFURT, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday announced that it would keep key interest rates unchanged amid tentative signs of economic stabilization in the eurozone.

The central bank staff reconfirmed in the latest edition of their forecast that inflation will swing around two percent from 2025 to 2028, with headline average inflation estimated at 2.1 percent in 2025, 1.9 percent in 2026, 1.8 percent in 2027, and 2.0 percent in 2028.

The interest rates on the deposit facility, the main refinancing operations, and the marginal lending facility will remain unchanged at two percent, 2.15 percent, and 2.4 percent, respectively.

The ECB repeated in a statement that it is "not pre-committing to a particular rate path." ■