By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Wednesday that Europe was poorly positioned to benefit from the rapid technological transformation of the global economy, citing excessive regulatory complexity, insufficient rewards for talent and fragmented markets.
14 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Wednesday called for the creation of a single European safe asset, saying the case for it was clear despite the political difficulty involved.
14 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said on Wednesday that market expectations for further tightening appeared reasonable, citing persistent inflation and a resilient Eurozone economy, although heightened uncertainty warranted caution.
14 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said Wednesday that banks needed to build resilience against climate and nature shocks that could not be captured adequately by conventional risk models, as increasing uncertainty and non-linear effects made reliance on historical data less dependable.
14 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Wednesday that the ECB was looking for early evidence that higher energy costs were spreading more broadly through the economy, warning that policymakers could not afford to wait for second-round inflation effects to become fully apparent.
14 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – Following are key comments by European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin from an International Monetary Fund presentation and question-and-answer session in Bangkok on Wednesday. The comments have been lightly edited for clarity.
14 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said Wednesday that the current energy-driven inflation shock warranted a “measured adjustment” of monetary policy, while higher long-term yields were already tightening financial conditions and could allow a more moderate interest rate response.
14 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Europe should increase the supply of safe assets through common bond issuance, while European Union countries facing fiscal problems needed to confront them rather than delay adjustment.
13 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane said Tuesday that the global artificial intelligence investment boom was contributing to higher long-term interest rates, resulting in a material tightening of financial conditions in the euro area that was relevant to the ECB’s monetary policy stance.
13 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Álvaro Santos Pereira on Tuesday highlighted the resilience of the global economy while acknowledging the need for fiscal consolidation and structural reforms.
13 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Álvaro Santos Pereira on Tuesday said that Portugal’s successful reduction of its high public debt reflected sustained fiscal prudence across successive governments, structural reforms and a carefully managed return to market financing.
13 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Christodoulos Patsalides said Monday that the economic landscape had become “extremely unpredictable” and that everything could change by December, while stressing the limits of monetary policy in dealing with inflation caused by external shocks.
12 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Germany’s stated intention to seek another German for the European Central Bank Executive Board seat being vacated by Isabel Schnabel could materially improve former de Nederlandsche Bank Governor Klaas Knot’s chances of succeeding Christine Lagarde if it means that Berlin is scaling back its ambitions for the other top ECB jobs.
12 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said euro area inflation was well above the ECB’s 2% target and suggested that further interest rate increases would be gradual, pointing to the success of gradual tightening in bringing down inflation previously without causing a recession or threatening financial stability.
11 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank policymakers said at their September meeting that higher long-term interest rates could materially restrain growth and inflation and might have implications for the appropriate level of policy rates, according to the account of the meeting published Thursday.
8 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member and chief economist Philip Lane said Thursday that euro area wage growth had not shown a noticeable acceleration, suggesting that the latest inflation increase had yet to generate significant second-round effects.
8 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Thursday that the absence of significant second-round inflation effects argued for moderation in further monetary policy tightening, even though repeated supply shocks and additional demand pressures meant the ECB could not remain inactive.
8 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said Thursday that he was unconvinced by arguments for raising the ECB's minimum reserve requirement on banks, warning that using the measure to reduce central bank losses could turn it into a quasi-fiscal instrument.
8 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said Thursday that higher energy prices had not so far developed into broader inflationary pressure, with only limited indirect effects and no evidence of second-round effects.
8 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen said Thursday that medium- and longer-term inflation expectations remained well anchored despite a persistent energy shock, while he did not expect second-round inflation effects.
8 October 2026 | Central Bank News