By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said in a Politico interview published Thursday that inflation was set to converge to the 2% target over the medium term and that the euro area economy “remains in a good place.”
19 February 2026
– European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Thursday pressed the case for a digital euro, arguing that...
– European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that he had received no indication that ECB President...
– European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that risks to the outlook were balanced, and geopolitical...
By Marta Vilar and David Barwick – VALLETTA (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted...
By Marta Vilar and David Barwick – VALLETTA (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 16 February with Alexander Demarco, Governor of the Central Bank of Malta and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
19 February 2026
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – VALLETTA (Econostream) – If downside surprises led to a medium-term inflation outlook in the euro area below the European Central Bank’s 2% target, this could argue for another rate cut, according to ECB Governing Council member Alexander Demarco.
19 February 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 6 February 2026 with Matthew Emde, Director General of Funds Management at the Canadian Department of Finance:
16 February 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Canada is “working hard” toward issuing a transition bond in 2027, with the intention of making it a benchmark deal, according to Matthew Emde, Director General of Funds Management at the Department of Finance.
16 February 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – We return today to European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau’s habit of staking out positions with confidence and then recalibrating seamlessly without acknowledging the recalibration—a habit that now looks like teeing up a potential easing pitch before he leaves office.
19 February 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The Financial Times report on Wednesday that Christine Lagarde is expected to leave the European Central Bank (ECB) before her term ends is best treated as a timely reminder that the clock is ticking.
18 February 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – François Villeroy de Galhau’s decision to step down as governor of the Banque de France in early June, announced Monday, is being treated as a personal choice to make a laudable move into social service. For European Central Bank communication, the upside may outweigh the costs.
10 February 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – An interesting thing about European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s press conference on Thursday was her increasingly obvious discomfort with her own creation. The “good place” mantra is being eased out of the ECB’s active vocabulary—not by contradiction, which would require quite some explaining, but by an unmistakable, ongoing distancing.
6 February 2026
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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter showed the Governing Council and the Executive Board remained broadly stable this week, with only a marginal hawkish shift in each that is unlikely to be materially significant.
13 February 2026