By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Wednesday said the ECB would take the steps required to restore price stability in the euro area.
11 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Christodoulos Patsalides on Wednesday said persistent price pressures would make the direction of monetary policy clear, while noting that meaningful second-round effects had yet to emerge and oil prices had fallen substantially.
11 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Wednesday called for deeper European economic integration and the removal of national financial barriers, warning that fragmentation was undermining investment, competition and growth.
11 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Wednesday said Germany’s economic recovery was proving stronger than the Bundesbank had expected over the summer, but warned that higher public spending would do little to lift its growth potential without structural reforms.
11 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – GENEVA, Switzerland (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Tuesday that financial markets' pricing of fiscal risks in France should be viewed as a positive development that could encourage governments to put their public finances on a more sustainable footing.
10 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel indicated Tuesday that he saw a case for further tightening, with the December projections set to clarify whether interest rates need to move into restrictive territory.
10 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said Tuesday there was a strong case for a December rate hike if the data held up, while cautioning that energy prices and financing conditions could shift materially before the meeting.
10 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said Tuesday that explaining how policymakers weigh incoming data is more effective than signaling where interest rates are headed when rates are away from their effective lower bound.
10 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) –European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said on Tuesday that the ECB’s concern is to ensure that energy-driven inflation does not propagate to the wider economy or cause a wage-price spiral, adding that policymakers would decide in December whether another interest rate increase was necessary.
10 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Tuesday urged EU lawmakers to wrap up negotiations on the digital euro and adopt the legislation by year-end, warning that a delay could push back its introduction and deepen Europe’s reliance on foreign payment providers.
10 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen said on Tuesday that credible fiscal frameworks can help prevent concerns about sovereign debt from interfering with the transmission of monetary policy across the euro area, highlighting the importance of sound public finances and deeper European integration.
10 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Tuesday said the evidence currently favored further monetary tightening and that the ECB should be prepared to raise rates cautiously if needed.
10 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said Tuesday that he would favor raising interest rates in December if the evidence available at the meeting gave policymakers the same picture they have today.
10 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said he saw a strong case for raising interest rates in December if recent energy price developments continued to point to increased inflation risks.
9 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The European Central Bank's Governing Council became more hawkish last week as some policymakers increasingly signaled that another interest rate increase in December was likely, while the Executive Board turned more cautious, emphasizing uncertainty and the need for additional economic data.
9 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde effectively told markets on October 29 to expect a December rate hike unless the outlook changed dramatically. In an interview published Saturday, she presented her remarks to Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun as a reiteration of her earlier guidance; our slightly contrarian view is that she gave the Governing Council a little more room to hold than she had the week before.
9 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Former Dutch central bank Governor Klaas Knot, a candidate to lead the European Central Bank, said in a Financial Times interview published Monday that he saw little need for further monetary tightening if energy prices stabilized or eased. He also said the ECB could design a new instrument if a future crisis disrupted monetary policy transmission in ways its existing tools were ill suited to address.
9 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said in an interview published Saturday that it would take significant changes to alter the policy course she expected. She left open whether the ECB would raise rates in December and warned that prolonged high inflation would increase the risk to its medium-term target.
7 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Friday that the ECB would gather information between its October and December monetary policy meetings before deciding what to do next, after having already raised interest rates a couple of times.
6 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Thursday that declines in energy prices and government bond yields following the U.S. midterm elections could benefit both inflation and economic growth, but cautioned that it was too early to assess the implications.
5 November 2026 | Central Bank News