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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The European Central Bank's Governing Council became slightly less hawkish over the past week as its October monetary policy meeting approaches, according to Econostream's ECB Tone Meter, with policymakers increasingly acknowledging that higher borrowing costs could reduce the need for further interest rate hikes.
26 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Former German finance minister Jörg Kukies has turned down a move to the European Central Bank despite persistent efforts by Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil to recruit him, Platow Brief reported Friday.
23 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is a collection of views expressed by ECB Governing Council members on various topics of high relevance related to next week’s meeting and the further evolution of monetary policy.
23 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Euro area consumers raised their near-term inflation expectations slightly in September while leaving longer-term expectations unchanged, the European Central Bank said Friday.
23 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s possible responses to mounting French fiscal and market tensions extend well beyond the question of whether it would buy French government bonds. Public and other comments amply confirm that the consequences of tighter financial conditions are already entering policymakers’ thinking, even as they insist that France must resolve its own fiscal problems.
22 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta warned on Thursday that rising energy prices and higher borrowing costs were weighing on economic growth, particularly in Europe, where economic activity remains weaker than in the United States.
22 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank aims to bring inflation back to 2% while avoiding derailing economic growth and will not commit to future interest rate moves in advance, Executive Board member Philip...
21 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar - BANGKOK (Econostream) - Following is a transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream with Mārtiņš Kazāks, Governor of Latvijas Banka and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank on 17 October 2026.
21 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar and David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is well positioned at the moment but faces a situation demanding particular caution in determining monetary policy, ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks told Econostream on Saturday.
21 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 6 October 2026 with Tammo Diemer, Executive Director of the German Finance Agency.
21 October 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Germany's annual borrowing needs are likely to remain above €500 billion over the medium term as the government ramps up spending on defense and infrastructure, according to Tammo Diemer, executive director of Germany's Federal Finance Agency.
21 October 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said Wednesday that Europe needed to deepen the integration of its banking and capital markets while ensuring that efforts to simplify regulation did not undermine the resilience of its financial system.
21 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Unconditional European support measures aimed at calming sovereign bond markets could ultimately create the conditions for a more serious debt crisis, according to Tammo Diemer, executive director of Germany's Federal Finance Agency.
21 October 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s enhanced liquidity facility for foreign central banks should strengthen euro bond markets and help protect monetary policy transmission against international financial disruptions, ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Wednesday.
21 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 17 October 2026 with Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Second Deputy Governor of the Banque de France:
20 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – BANGKOK (Econostream) – Europe will need a common safe asset, but making it central to the Savings and Investments Union would risk blocking negotiations, Banque de France Second Deputy Governor Agnès Bénassy-Quéré said in an interview conducted on October 17.
20 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Notwithstanding our view last April that former German finance minister Jörg Kukies’ move to Morgan Stanley made him an unlikely successor to European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel, conversations on the margins of last week’s IMF and World Bank annual meetings suggest that some people continue to consider him an ideal choice.
20 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Tuesday that rising long-term interest rates were hampering economic activity and holding back inflation, highlighting the tightening of financial conditions.
20 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Pablo Hernández de Cos may have a fallback awaiting him in Madrid should he fail to become the next European Central Bank president, with the possibility gaining traction in Spain that the former Bank of Spain governor could become the economic heavyweight in a government led by Partido Popular leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
20 October 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Climate-related shocks are increasingly affecting both economic activity and inflation and are becoming structural drivers of economic and financial outcomes, European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said Monday.
19 October 2026 | Central Bank News