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
– European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday that downside risks to...
– Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 6 February 2026 with Luis de Guindos, vice...
– European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday told the European Parliament that policymakers will stick with...
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 6 February 2026 with Luis de Guindos, vice president of the European Central Bank:
10 February 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 3 February 2026 with Karol Czarnecki, Director of the Public Debt Department at the Polish Ministry of Finance:
4 February 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Poland could issue a USD benchmark bond in the first half of 2026, while returning to the euro market is also a possibility for the second part of the year, according to Karol Czarnecki, Director of the Public Debt Department at the Polish Ministry of Finance.
4 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
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – With the rate decision a foregone conclusion, Thursday’s European Central Bank press conference was mostly a test of whether President Christine Lagarde would let a turbulent couple of weeks pull the ECB’s messaging off its well-worn neutral track. She did not.
5 February 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – With rates to remain unchanged, Thursday’s press conference is mainly a test of message discipline. Recent news has been the kind that some observers treat as inviting reactive messaging, but for months the European Central Bank has kept its tone firmly neutral, and that is the posture we expect again this week.
3 February 2026
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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter showed the Governing Council turning marginally dovish this week, while the Executive Board was little changed and remained mildly hawkish.
6 February 2026