By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Álvaro Santos Pereira said on Monday that it was “not worth speculating” about the ECB’s next interest rate decision.
15 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s rate hike last Thursday did not amount to an assessment that the economy no longer faces downside risks, but it did reflect the emerging view that those risks may have been overstated in the context of an inflation shock that is dominating the blow to growth.
15 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Monday that the ECB had increasingly observed indirect inflation effects spreading across the economy in recent weeks.
15 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Monday that the ECB remained in a position to adjust interest rates gradually, citing stable oil price developments and an effective transmission of monetary policy.
15 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said Monday that last week’s rate increase had been necessary and that the ECB still had more to do to contain medium-term inflation pressures.
15 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Monday that the digital euro would help Europe reduce its reliance on foreign-owned payments infrastructure and give the region a payment instrument usable across the whole currency area.
15 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Monday that last week’s 25bp rate increase had been warranted by a worsening inflation outlook and that the ECB would keep its options open at its July meeting.
15 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír on Friday said the ECB’s work on inflation was not finished and declined to rule out taking monetary policy into restrictive territory.
12 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter turned slightly less hawkish for the Governing Council this week, while the Executive Board remained broadly unchanged, following Thursday’s 25bp rate hike.
12 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen said on Friday that the ECB’s 25bp interest rate hike yesterday would help return inflation to its 2% medium-term target, while stressing that policymakers would continue to monitor developments and adjust policy if necessary.
12 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Friday that this week’s rate hike had been unavoidable given the ECB’s new inflation forecasts, but that the Governing Council had made no commitment to act again in July or September.
12 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The first wave of comments after Thursday’s European Central Bank rate hike reinforced the case for another move later this year, but still fell clearly short of making action in July the base case.
12 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said on Friday that higher energy prices were already feeding through to other goods and services despite the continued lack of evidence of knock-on effects on wages.
12 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said Friday that the ECB’s June rate hike was aimed at keeping inflation expectations anchored and preventing price pressures from spreading from energy to other prices and wages.
12 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said Friday that the ECB needed to get ahead of inflation and that it would have been a mistake not to act.
12 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ülo Kaasik said Friday that markets expected another two to three ECB rate hikes this year, but that the timing of the next move was extremely difficult to predict.
12 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Friday that the ECB’s rate hike would help stabilize conditions as the Middle East war pushed inflation higher and raised the risk of second-round effects.
12 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Primož Dolenc said Friday that the ECB’s new interest-rate level would allow it to respond appropriately to further developments in the Middle East energy shock.
12 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Friday that the ECB would maintain optionality regarding its next move and react if necessary.
12 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Thursday’s rate hike by the European Central Bank was “just enough for now,” according to Governing Council member Primož Dolenc, who declined to provide any guidance on future policy moves.
12 June 2026