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Exclusive: ECB’s Radev: Rate Hikes Would Require Persistent Services Inflation, Wage Growth

Exclusive: ECB’s Radev: Rate Hikes Would Require Persistent Services Inflation, Wage Growth

By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Hiking interest rates would require clearer evidence of persistent services inflation and strong wage dynamics, as well as signs that domestic price pressures were failing to ease as projected, according to Dimitar Radev, governor of the Bulgarian National Bank and member of the European Central Bank Governing Council.

19 January 2026

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ECB Insight: Vujčić’s Victory, or the Candidate Everyone Can Live With

ECB Insight: Vujčić’s Victory, or the Candidate Everyone Can Live With

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The dust having settled following European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić’s elevation to succeed Luis de Guindos as ECB vice president on Monday, the choice looks like a classic convergence outcome: a candidate who was not the clearest front-runner, but proved acceptable to the widest range of capitals in a crowded field.

23 January 2026

ECB Tone Meter

Entire Governing Council

27 Members
Very Dovish
Very Hawkish

Executive Board

6 Members
Very Dovish
Very Hawkish

Evolution

Governing Council vs. Executive Board

As of 23 January 2026

ECB Tone Meter

Meeting Bias

ECB Governing Council Meeting