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
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Monday that the ECB should remain cautious and flexible in its next steps.
16 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Monday confirmed that ECB President Christine Lagarde’s insistence that the ECB was in a good place meant that a pause in monetary policy easing could be appropriate.
16 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Saturday that the inflation target was now ‘within reach’.
14 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Friday said that the ECB had to watch for signs of inflation escaping control to both the upside and the downside.
13 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The Dutch government has appointed Olaf Sleijpen as the next president of De Nederlandsche Bank, to succeed current DNB chief and European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on July 1.
13 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – As it is now established that Olaf Sleijpen will succeed Klaas Knot as President of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), we have taken a closer look at Sleijpen’s record and concluded that a major shift in Dutch thinking on monetary policy at the European Central Bank is unlikely.
13 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that recent events were likely to lead to weaker economic growth, a leading indicator of how inflation might evolve.
12 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said on Thursday that a pause in the ECB’s easing cycle was justified, but he did not rule out another interest rate cut in 2025.
12 June 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will continue to set monetary policy on a meeting-by-meeting, data-dependent basis, according to ECB Governing Council member Christodoulos Patsalides on Thursday.
12 June 2025
By David Barwick – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Thursday that the ECB was nearing the end of its monetary policy easing and that policy was well situated at the moment.
12 June 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Thursday that market volatility created by trade tensions could test non-banks in terms of financial stability.
12 June 2025