By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on Monday said the ECB should be ready to move interest rates quickly in either direction if current uncertainties affecting the euro area outlook were to materialize, while making clear that policymakers should not react prematurely to risks that had not yet shown up in the data.
2 March 2026
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Monday that it is premature to respond to the recent...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said on Monday that policymakers should not “rush”...
– European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Sunday that the ECB was “in a good position”...
– Primož Dolenc took office on Sunday as Governor of Banka Slovenije, the institution said in a press release.
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 Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Slovenia expects to issue a Panda bond this year in the range of RMB2–4 billion, with March 2026 seen as the earliest possible window, though final timing will depend on market conditions, according to Marjan Divjak, Director General of the Treasury Directorate of Slovenia’s Ministry of Finance.
23 February 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 18 February 2026 with Dimitris Tsakonas, Director General of the Greek Public Debt Management Agency:
20 February 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Greece is highly likely to conduct another syndicated bond deal in 2026, though it has not yet decided whether it would involve launching a new benchmark or reopening an existing line, according to Dimitris Tsakonas, Director General of the Greek Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA).
20 February 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
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Wednesday’s report from Spanish news outlet Vozpópuli on former European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos is more convincing than the outlet’s attempt a month ago to portray the ECB as already opening the door to him. Even so, the new piece still looks less like confirmation of a Spanish decision than an effort to shape the conversation around one.
26 February 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – By now, one thing is clear: European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde wants to at least preserve the option of leaving her post early.
23 February 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday provided for the record what should have been the sentence to end the early resignation saga: “So my baseline is that it will take until the end of my term.”
20 February 2026
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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter showed the Governing Council unchanged this week, while the Executive Board edged down to neutral.
27 February 2026