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ECB Insight: Schnabel Gives the ECB Room to Wait

ECB Insight: Schnabel Gives the ECB Room to Wait

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Friday evening made a clear case for patience without remotely taking tightening off the table. Her core message was that the ECB should not let the memory of 2022 stampede it into treating every supply-side shock as the inevitable start of another inflation spiral, especially when the starting conditions—think today—are materially different.

27 March 2026

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ECB Insight: Schnabel Gives the ECB Room to Wait

ECB Insight: Schnabel Gives the ECB Room to Wait

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Friday evening made a clear case for patience without remotely taking tightening off the table. Her core message was that the ECB should not let the memory of 2022 stampede it into treating every supply-side shock as the inevitable start of another inflation spiral, especially when the starting conditions—think today—are materially different.

27 March 2026
ECB’s Schnabel: “There’s No Need to Rush into Action”

ECB’s Schnabel: “There’s No Need to Rush into Action”

By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Friday that policymakers should remain cautious in responding to the latest energy-driven inflation shock, adding that there was “no need to rush into action.”

27 March 2026

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ECB Insight: Schnabel Gives the ECB Room to Wait

ECB Insight: Schnabel Gives the ECB Room to Wait

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Friday evening made a clear case for patience without remotely taking tightening off the table. Her core message was that the ECB should not let the memory of 2022 stampede it into treating every supply-side shock as the inevitable start of another inflation spiral, especially when the starting conditions—think today—are materially different.

27 March 2026
ECB Insight: With the Vice Presidency Secured, Vujčić Shows His Hawkish Hand

ECB Insight: With the Vice Presidency Secured, Vujčić Shows His Hawkish Hand

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – In his first substantive public intervention since being confirmed as the next ECB vice president, Croatian National Bank Governor Boris Vujčić did not merely keep April alive. He leaned distinctly hawkish, normalized the idea of more than one rate hike, and suggested that the euro area may already be drifting away from the European Central Bank’s baseline and toward something closer to the ECB’s severe scenario only days after the scenario analysis was unveiled.

24 March 2026
ECB Insight: De Guindos Makes April a More Credible Decision Point

ECB Insight: De Guindos Makes April a More Credible Decision Point

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos’ interview with Spanish daily El Mundo on Monday was no overt attempt to prepare markets for an April rate hike, given how closely he hewed to the meeting-by-meeting, data-dependent line. And yet, the interview does nothing to make such a decision look less conceivable.

23 March 2026
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