By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Wednesday that the ECB should remain “relaxed” unless a “big shock” were to trigger a sustained deviation from its medium-term inflation goal.
12 November 2025
By David Barwick – TIRANA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Edward Scicluna on Tuesday suggested that changing interest rates in the current, relatively balanced policy environment would amount to tempting fate.
11 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Tuesday that reality kept proving pessimistic forecasts wrong, but it was yet to know if that would continue to be the case.
11 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that inflation risks were balanced and economic growth had held up better than anticipated.
11 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said on Tuesday that the ECB should remain ready to respond if risks shift, stressing the need to preserve policy space.
11 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Tuesday said the ECB’s monetary policy stance remained appropriate and that rate decisions would continue to depend on incoming data.
11 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen warned on Tuesday that widening fiscal gaps among euro area countries and rising political uncertainty could weaken the transmission of monetary policy.
11 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Monday that the ECB must continue to set monetary policy with prudence and caution even though uncertainty has recently eased.
10 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Friday said that Greece’s experience during its debt crisis showed how fiscal imbalances, weak institutions and delayed reforms can threaten stability across the euro area.
7 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Friday that the ECB had decided to keep interest rates unchanged at its last policy meeting because conditions remained broadly as in September and some downside risks had moderated.
7 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Friday that the ECB had succeeded in bringing inflation close to its 2% target and projected that Germany’s economic growth would exceed 1% in 2027.
7 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić on Friday echoed other policymakers’ warnings of over-valued financial assets and suggested that this could be a harbinger of negative developments.
7 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – ECB Governing Council member Martin Kocher said in remarks published Thursday that the euro area economy had weathered the impact of US tariffs better than anticipated and that recent data pointed to some stabilization.
6 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Thursday said financial stability has always been integral to central banking, though its prominence has fluctuated over time, and warned that the challenges to safeguarding it are constantly changing.
6 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that the ECB had become somewhat more optimistic about economic growth and that the current level of interest rates remained appropriate.
6 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Thursday said the ECB’s planned structural securities portfolio should be weighted toward shorter-dated assets to preserve policy space, maintain stance neutrality and support financial soundness.
6 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday said that monetary authorities would entertain further easing if the outlook weakened further.
5 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – PARIS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that while the ECB was in a good position, this did not make it permanent.
5 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – PARIS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that inflation would return to the ECB’s 2% target even if it falls below that level temporarily next year.
5 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday urged Europe to act decisively to strengthen its security and economic resilience, warning that the continent could otherwise become a “plaything of the major powers” in an increasingly power-based world order.
4 November 2025