By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said Tuesday that last week’s rate hike was necessary to prevent energy-driven inflation from becoming embedded, but did not automatically signal the start of an extended tightening cycle.
16 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said Tuesday that last week’s 25bp rate hike was a straightforward decision given the inflation outlook and the Eurozone economy’s resilience, but declined to say whether further tightening would follow.
16 June 2026
By Marta Vilar - MADRID (Econostream) - European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Tuesday that lower oil prices following the recent US-Iran agreement might not fully capture the supply disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East.
16 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Lest anyone think Nadia Calviño really closed the door on Tuesday to becoming the next head of the European Central Bank: she did not. Given ample opportunity to be clear about her potential interest in succeeding current officeholder Christine Lagarde, the European Investment Bank president was at pains not to take it.
16 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Investment Bank President Nadia Calviño on Tuesday declined to discuss who should next lead the European Central Bank and played down the suggestion that she herself could be a candidate.
16 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said on Tuesday that the recent agreement reached by the US and Iran was “good news” but warned that a return to normalcy would take time.
16 June 2026
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 David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Monday that the ECB was prepared to take further action if needed to prevent higher energy prices from spreading more broadly through the economy.
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