By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Monday that the euro area economy remained resilient despite rising global uncertainty, with inflation broadly aligned with the ECB’s 2% target..
23 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – With less than a year to go until the next anticipated vacancy on the European Central Bank’s Executive Board—Vice President Luis de Guindos is set to depart at the end of May 2026—we consider it timely to examine some of the policymakers regarded as potential Board candidates.
23 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said Sunday that the ECB needed to provide additional stimulus to ensure inflation returns to 2%.
22 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Wednesday said that euro area inflation would fall below target in the near term, but expressed confidence that it would return to 2% in the medium term, as the effects of energy prices faded and wage and employment dynamics provided underlying support.
19 June 2025
By David Barwick – KYIV (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus on Thursday called for joint European financing of defence.
19 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MILAN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that price stability would not per se lead to economic growth and that the ECB was not all-powerful.
19 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MILAN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council Joachim Nagel said on Thursday that euro area interest rates were now at neutral levels and that the ECB was ‘on the right track’.
19 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday that if the ECB moved again in the second half of 2025, it could be to cut interest rates again.
19 June 2025
By David Barwick – KYIV (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday offered a succinct and pointed analysis in support of a greater international role of the euro and a reduced importance of the US dollar.
19 June 2025
By David Barwick – KYIV (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that closer ties between Ukraine and its European neighbours would help the former rebuild.
19 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MILAN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that the German economy could pick up slightly this year after a period of stagnation.
18 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member and Slovak central bank chief Peter Kažimír is under pressure after declining to appear before Slovak lawmakers to present a report of the National Bank of Slovakia, fuelling criticism that he is seeking to evade domestic scrutiny in the wake of his recent bribery conviction.
18 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MILAN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno on Wednesday suggested that persistent economic weakness would doom to failure the effort to sustainably achieve price stability in Europe.
18 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MILAN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Wednesday that US tariffs would hurt European growth, while the effect on inflation was harder to determine.
18 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MILAN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Wednesday that inflation was likely to stay below 2% for a long time while the economy remains weak.
18 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Writing here on June 3, we expressed reluctance – hardly novel - to accept European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras’ contention that 2% would mark the terminal rate of the ECB’s easing cycle. With good reason: Stournaras himself now appears reluctant to accept it.
18 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday suggested that his previous assurances that 2% would be the ECB‘s terminal rate were subject to change.
17 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MILAN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Tuesday that European retaliation against US tariffs would backfire.
17 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday that the ECB should remain ready to act as warranted and that there was no pre-determined path for interest rates.
17 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The division within the European Central Bank Governing Council was apparent last week, but Vice President Luis de Guindos’ comments published Monday made it even clearer - not just where the lines lie, but also where common ground has emerged.
16 June 2025