By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s speech in Helsinki on Tuesday confirmed the steady honing of her message over recent weeks: policy is firmly on hold, inflation risks are bounded, and the shocks of trade conflict are proving less destabilizing than once feared.
1 October 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday that the ECB had so far observed little evidence of Chinese goods being redirected in large quantities to Europe, though she stressed that the situation would be monitored closely.
30 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 24 September 2025 with Mercedes Abascal, Deputy Director General of Public Debt Management at the Spanish Treasury.
30 September 2025 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Spain will not proceed with the syndicated bond issuance that had been expected late in 2025, diverging from its standard practice of four such operations a year, according to Mercedes Abascal, Deputy Director General of Public Debt Management at the Spanish Treasury.
30 September 2025 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – HELSINKI (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday said that monetary policy remained in a good place, with little inflation impact from tariffs and inflation risks to both the downside and the upside well contained.
30 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Tuesday that ECB’s current level of interest rates was appropriate for present conditions, but that a change in the policy environment could warrant an adjustment.
30 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – HELSINKI (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Tuesday highlighted the potential effectiveness of monetary policy persistence.
30 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that Europe had to speak up for the Federal Reserve’s independence amid US President Donald Trump’s attacks.
30 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said on Tuesday that the ECB might need to cut interest rates in December.
30 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Monday said that the digital euro was designed to bolster monetary sovereignty, ensure universal access to safe digital money and enhance the resilience of the European payments system.
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Monday that an “elegant reanchoring” of inflation toward the ECB’s 2% target was “plausible,” describing the overall outlook as “benign.”
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that while new technologies and market entrants bring opportunities to payments and settlement, innovation must not be allowed to weaken central bank money, endanger financial stability or escape regulation.
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – TALLINN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Monday said that the digital euro would be a key tool to preserve Europeans’ freedom of choice, safeguard the bloc’s autonomy and strengthen its resilience in the face of global uncertainty.
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Monday said that the ECB was close to being done cutting interest rates.
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday said that France was in danger of being crushed under its debt burden.
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen on Saturday declined to say whether he considered himself a monetary policy hawk or dove and noted that uncertainty was high.
27 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Friday that being in a “good position” should not be mistaken for an absence of risks to inflation.
26 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Friday that markets’ failure to price in risks related to U.S. trade policies, expansionary fiscal measures, and institutional weakening did not mean that significant negative effects could not materialize in the short or medium term.
26 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Friday said the euro area economy had shown “remarkable resilience” and that inflation was set to ease close to the ECB’s target, while warning that trade tensions and geopolitics were keeping risks tilted to the downside.
26 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Thursday again endorsed the ECB’s current monetary policy stance and declined to encourage expectations of another rate cut, suggesting that this would require a major deviation from target.
25 September 2025 Central Bank News