By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned on Wednesday that increasingly frequent extreme weather events could push food inflation higher and amplify energy price shocks, even as their immediate impact on euro area economic activity remains limited.
4 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank's latest wage tracker offers little evidence that the renewed energy shock is generating significant second-round effects, but has virtually no bearing on the Governing Council's intention to raise interest rates in December.
4 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Tuesday that another interest rate increase before the end of the year was likely if economic and inflation conditions remained unchanged, but emphasized that the ECB could not precommit to such a move given the high degree of uncertainty.
3 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Tuesday that another ECB interest rate increase in December would probably be unavoidable, arguing that the inflation outlook had deteriorated.
3 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council members speaking since last Thursday’s decision have collectively strengthened the impression that another interest rate increase in December is the central scenario, but offer notably less support for any assumption that tightening will continue beyond then.
3 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Tuesday that the recent increase in sovereign risk premia and long-term government bond yields was a healthy development that could encourage governments to address fiscal imbalances, provided market adjustments remained orderly.
3 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – SOFIA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on Tuesday said that euro area monetary authorities needed to ensure that current price pressures did not become entrenched.
3 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – SOFIA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Dimitar Radev said on Tuesday that further interest rate increases may be necessary if inflationary pressures prove persistent, warning that policymakers should not wait for second-round effects from the energy shock to fully materialize before considering action.
3 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin praised ECB President Christine Lagarde's record on Monday following her decision to leave the central bank early, saying she had led the institution through “turbulent times.”
2 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Monday that the longer the current energy shock persisted, the greater the danger that price pressures would spread more broadly through the economy and eventually affect wages.
2 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said Monday that rising sovereign bond yields could increasingly expose fiscally vulnerable euro area countries to market pressure, warning that governments would need to respond primarily through fiscal policy if the underlying problem was fiscal.
2 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Monday that the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence-related investment was supporting economic activity but warned that stretched valuations and growing debt financing raised the risk of a financial market correction.
2 November 2026 | Central Bank News
ECB's Kažimír: “Markets May Still Underestimate” Tightening Required
2 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Reducing internal barriers to goods and services by just 2% could in the long run offset the projected roughly 0.7 percentage point hit to euro area GDP from higher U.S. tariffs between 2025 and 2027, European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said Monday.
2 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Hawkishness among European Central Bank policymakers rose sharply last week, driven primarily by ECB President Christine Lagarde's comments following Thursday's Governing Council meeting, as discussion of a possible December interest rate hike gained traction.
2 November 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane said Friday artificial intelligence was already making a significant contribution to euro area growth, with spending on AI adoption supporting activity and European firms participating in the global AI supply chain.
30 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde made a subtle but potentially meaningful shift in her public language on French sovereign stress on Thursday, invoking the ECB’s anti-fragmentation backstop in an answer about France after previously keeping the emphasis firmly on the responsibility of Paris to fix its own fiscal problems.
30 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Friday that he had seriously considered raising interest rates at the ECB's October meeting and would support further action in December if the economic evidence warranted it, warning that upside inflation risks remained.
30 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said on Friday that inflationary pressures pointed toward higher interest rates, but the absence of significant second-round effects gave policymakers some room to wait for additional information before deciding on further tightening.
30 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Friday that if the economic and inflation situation failed to improve in the near term, the monetary policy environment would point to a need for a policy response.
30 October 2026 | Central Bank News