By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Wednesday that in principle the war involving Iran is likely to have a negative impact on economic growth while also potentially increasing risks to inflation.
11 March 2026
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír’s intervention on Wednesday stood out not because...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Wednesday that the ECB may need to raise interest...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that he does not think...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that the ECB would react “decisively”...
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 5 March 2026 with Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
6 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – The Iran conflict and its economic consequences are harming global growth, and a prolonged blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could significantly impact inflation and growth, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn.
6 March 2026
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on February 26 said that the emergence of an inflation risk could result in a very changed inflation situation in Europe that could require a modification of ECB monetary policy.
5 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 20 February 2026 with Marjan Divjak, Director General of the Treasury Directorate of Slovenia’s Ministry of Finance:
23 February 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír’s intervention on Wednesday stood out not because it was hawkish — why be surprised when Kažimír is hawkish? — but because of how directly it tried to pull the Iran shock into the ECB’s reaction function.
11 March 2026
By David Barwick – NEW YORK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel’s speech on Friday at the 2026 U.S. Monetary Policy Forum was unmistakably hawkish, but not in the crude way markets might have expected after a week of surging energy prices and frantic rates repricing.
6 March 2026
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – From today’s still-early perspective, the conflict in the Middle East looks much more likely to stiffen the European Central Bank’s caution at its March meeting than to trigger any immediate policy adjustment.
4 March 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - A softer US dollar has done little to disrupt sovereign funding strategies, with debt management offices signaling that their USD issuance plans remain firmly in place despite the currency’s recent depreciation.
26 February 2026
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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter showed the Governing Council becoming less dovish this week, while the Executive Board moved back into slightly dovish territory.
7 March 2026