By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 17 October 2026 with Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Second Deputy Governor of the Banque de France:
20 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – Europe will need a common safe asset, but making it central to the Savings and Investments Union would risk blocking negotiations, Banque de France Second Deputy Governor Agnès Bénassy-Quéré said in an interview conducted on October 17.
20 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Notwithstanding our view last April that former German finance minister Jörg Kukies’ move to Morgan Stanley made him an unlikely successor to European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel, conversations on the margins of last week’s IMF and World Bank annual meetings suggest that some people continue to consider him an ideal choice.
20 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Tuesday that rising long-term interest rates were hampering economic activity and holding back inflation, highlighting the tightening of financial conditions.
20 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Pablo Hernández de Cos may have a fallback awaiting him in Madrid should he fail to become the next European Central Bank president, with the possibility gaining traction in Spain that the former Bank of Spain governor could become the economic heavyweight in a government led by Partido Popular leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
20 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Climate-related shocks are increasingly affecting both economic activity and inflation and are becoming structural drivers of economic and financial outcomes, European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said Monday.
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ECB Tone Meter: Tone Turns More Hawkish Despite Lagarde’s Neutral Remarks
19 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Saturday that the energy shock was too large for policymakers to look through, but that tighter financing conditions and limited pass-through into other prices and wages meant a measured monetary policy response remained appropriate.
17 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Saturday that higher borrowing costs were tightening financial conditions, weighing on economic growth and exerting some disinflationary pressure.
17 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Saturday that the ECB had not yet finished tightening monetary policy to combat inflation and might need to raise interest rates further.
17 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Saturday that higher energy prices had pushed euro area inflation above target, but that there was so far no evidence of second-round effects on wages or other prices, warning nevertheless that such pressures could emerge gradually.
17 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said Friday the recent repricing of French government debt had not produced the kind of market dysfunction that would justify ECB intervention.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – Former European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Friday that said that Eurozone countries must accept a certain loss of national sovereignty to ensure the functioning of the monetary union, arguing that the lesson of Mario Draghi’s landmark 2012 intervention remains as relevant today as it was then.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – Following is the transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 15 October 2026 with Pierre Wunsch, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) - The recent increase in long-term bond yields does not mean the European Central Bank has finished raising interest rates, according to Pierre Wunsch, member of the ECB Governing Council, who argued that further tightening would be “reasonable” given persistent inflation pressures and the resilience of the Eurozone economy.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said Friday that the additional information available at the ECB’s December meeting argued for a “measured” approach to monetary policy, with the latest energy shock so far showing no significant signs of spreading more broadly through inflation.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Friday that another interest rate increase might be needed if the current inflation environment persisted, while stressing that policy should continue to be decided meeting by meeting.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – Former European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said Friday that the ECB was pursuing the appropriate monetary policy in the face of the latest supply shock, arguing that policymakers should do what was necessary to contain inflation while avoiding an unnecessarily large hit to growth.
16 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Thursday that inflation pressures were likely to remain dominant in the near term and that the direction of monetary policy was therefore clear, while adding that policymakers were not under immediate pressure to raise rates again.
15 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Primož Dolenc said Thursday that the current level of ECB interest rates gave policymakers sufficient flexibility to respond to developments, with future decisions continuing to depend on the inflation outlook, risks and the effects of monetary policy.
15 October 2026 | Central Bank News