By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member and Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras on Monday said monetary policy tightening became necessary when supply-driven inflation threatened to broaden and become entrenched, arguing that timely action could reduce the risk of more abrupt and painful rate increases later.
14 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member and Lietuvos bankas Governor Gediminas Šimkus said Monday that policymakers would already be able to assess the inflation outlook in October, while the December meeting would bring more data and updated projections.
14 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank needs time to determine whether the persistent energy shock is spreading to longer-term inflation expectations, wages and prices before deciding its next move, Governing Council member and Národná banka Slovenska Governor Peter Kažimír said Monday.
14 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Eurozone governments aim to agree by the end of December on a “grand package” covering the European Central Bank presidency and two other Executive Board positions, the Financial Times reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
14 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member and Austrian National Bank Governor Martin Kocher said the current energy shock could result in temporarily higher inflation, but that the overshoot must be brief and inflation should return to target "within about a year."
13 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank was obliged to raise interest rates because the energy shock was proving more persistent than initially expected and the euro area economy remained resilient, ECB President Christine Lagarde said Saturday.
12 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Keeping inflation at 2% over time ensures that external shocks pass rather than become embedded in persistently higher inflation, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Saturday.
12 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said Friday that he supported Thursday’s 25bp rate increase because inflation remained above target with upside risks, core inflation had yet to ease decisively and growth had remained resilient, while warning that substantially more tightening could impose meaningful economic costs.
11 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus declined Friday to predict further interest rate moves one day after the ECB’s latest hike, stressing the need for caution in communicating about future decisions even as he said inflation remained too high.
11 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter declined this week across both its Governing Council and Executive Board measures, as policymakers emerged from the September meeting stopping short of calling for another hike, while signaling that further tightening remained a possibility amid elevated inflation risks.
11 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ulo Kaasik said Friday that it was “understandable” that financial markets expected further ECB rate hikes, pointing to significant upside risks to the inflation outlook.
11 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Friday that the outlook was still too uncertain to judge whether additional interest rate increases would be needed in the euro area, while warning that inflation risks remained elevated and underlying price pressures required continued vigilance.
11 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank may need to move interest rates into mildly restrictive territory, depending on the development of energy prices and the broader inflation picture, ECB Governing Council member and Deutsche Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said Friday.
11 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – There are no material signs of second-round inflation pressures in the euro area, while inflation expectations remain under control, European Central Bank Governing Council member and Central Bank of Cyprus Governor Christodoulos Patsalides said Friday.
11 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Market participants have increased their expectations of European Central Bank tightening and do not exclude that the deposit rate will reach 3.25% by mid-2027, ECB Governing Council member and Banka Slovenije Governor Primož Dolenc said Friday.
11 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin on Friday backed yesterday’s 25bp rate hike, saying stronger Eurozone growth and inflation still running well above target justified the move.
11 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Thursday the ECB would make every effort to ensure that inflation returned to its 2% medium-term target.
10 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – French recycling and environmental services group Derichebourg on Thursday priced a dual-tranche €800 million green bond offering.
10 September 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank was hawkishly noncommittal on Thursday, presenting its widely expected decision to raise the deposit rate by 25bp to 2.50% as an obvious response to a more persistent inflation overshoot while refusing to offer any indication of when or even in which direction it might move next.
10 September 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – BERLIN (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Thursday that the Governing Council’s decision to raise interest rates by 25bp was unanimous and a “no-brainer,” while reiterating that the move was “robust” across all the ECB’s scenarios.
10 September 2026 | Central Bank News