By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Counicl member Olaf Sleijpen said on Tuesday that rapidly rising government debt could constrain central banks' ability to combat inflation, noting that concerns about debt sustainability could make interest rate hikes more difficult to implement effectively.
2 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday that the Banque de France would lower its growth forecasts, although the French economy would still be expected to expand in most of its scenarios.
1 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania on Monday allotted €50 million of a bond maturing June 1, 2032.
1 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany's Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Monday allotted €3.929 billion of treasury discount paper in a multi-ISIN tender reopening two Treasury discount paper (Bubill) lines maturing in September 2026 and March 2027.
1 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori - ROME (Econostream) - Agence France Trésor (AFT) on Monday allotted €7.996 billion of short-term bills at its Treasury bill (BTF) auction.
1 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Monday reiterated that the ECB could “no longer look through” the shock from the conflict in the Middle East.
1 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Less than a month after we pointed out that European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos’ praise for ex-Banco de España Governor Pablo Hernández de Cos kept getting fainter, the next step has arrived: the former no longer mentions the latter at all.
1 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Eurozone consumers’ near-term inflation expectations remained elevated in April, while their assessment of recent inflation rose significantly, the European Central Bank said Monday.
1 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Monday warned that the rapid growth of stablecoins could pose risks to financial stability, affect the transmission of monetary policy and further entrench the global dominance of the U.S. dollar, arguing that central banks must respond through regulation and continued innovation in public money.
1 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s state-sector budget deficit amounted to €14.7 billion in May, compared with a deficit of €11.681 billion in the same month of 2025, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) said on Monday.
1 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said in an interview published Sunday that a global supply shock would first affect inflation and then growth, and warned against assuming that a possible June rate hike would necessarily be followed by another move.
31 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Álvaro Santos Pereira said over the weekend that monetary policy should act quickly if inflationary pressures risk becoming persistent, signaling support for a rate hike at the ECB’s June 11 meeting.
31 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter moved more hawkish in both indices this week, with the Governing Council measure moving from slightly hawkish territory to close to outright hawkish territory, while the gap with the Executive Board narrowed substantially.
29 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Dimitar Radev said on Friday that the risks of delaying monetary policy action could outweigh those of moving earlier.
29 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 28 May 2026 with Gediminas Šimkus, Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
29 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) – A 25bp June interest rate hike by the European Central Bank would be prudent and a second tightening move thereafter is more likely than not, according to ECB Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus, who said that policymakers should gather additional evidence after June rather than feel compelled to tighten again immediately.
29 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta on Friday said the ECB’s monetary policy stance should be reevaluated, as the energy shock is already pushing up consumer prices.
29 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) sold £1 billion of the 1⅛% Treasury Gilt 2039 on Thursday.
28 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) sold €10.5 billion of BTPs and CCTeus on Thursday, according to data published by the Bank of Italy.
28 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) sold £1 billion of the 0⅜% Treasury Gilt 2030 via tender on Thursday.
28 May 2026 Debt Issuance News