VIENNA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is confident it will meet its inflation target despite the current rapid increases in consumer prices, its policymaker Robert Holzmann said on Wednesday. “We currently see some quite significant price surges, but we are confident that we are going to meet our newly defined symmetric inflation target of 2% over the medium term,” Holzmann, who is governor of the Austrian National Bank, said in the text of a speech prepared for delivery to a conference. (Reporting by Francois Murphy; Editing by Alex Richardson)