By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said on Thursday that it was not yet clear in which direction the ECB should move its monetary policy.
24 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Thursday said that the ECB should cut rates in June if the latest projections showed the inflation target being reached.
24 April 2025
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus on Thursday criticised excessive reliance on economic models for monetary policymaking.
24 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane said on Thursday that only when the ECB has run out of space using its policy rates should it use its other tools .
24 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that inflation in the euro area would reach 2% over the course of 2025, despite the high uncertainty.
23 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Wednesday expressed support for leaving interest rates at a neutral level.
23 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday that US tariffs could have a disinflationary impact in Europe.
23 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that developments had been positive with regards to inflation but that the economic outlook was more uncertain.
23 April 2025
By David Barwick – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot on Tuesday said that financial innovation should be possible within the necessary constraints imposed by authorities.
23 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday that recent US trade policies would create losses for all parties and increase the problems created by globalisation.
22 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Tuesday said that tariffs could ultimately prove deflationary and that growth in the euro area was very weak.
22 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Tuesday that the euro area was nearing completion of the disinflation process but was also in the midst of grappling with economic shocks.
22 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír on Tuesday said that ECB monetary policy had ceased to hold back euro area economic growth.
22 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Tuesday said that the uncertainty over US trade policy was dampening euro area economic growth.
22 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Monday said that the ECB would set policy meeting by meeting in an environment characterised by diminishing price pressures and a high chance of recession.
21 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Bank of Slovenia Deputy Governor Primož Dolenc on Friday said that disinflation was going as anticipated and the European Central Bank’s Governing Council would act on the basis of available information
18 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday that inflation risks were now weaker and probably to the downside.
18 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Official euro area interest rates are not holding back growth any longer, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Friday.
18 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank may have considered it an inopportune moment to reach a monetary policy decision other than what financial markets were expecting, according to ECB Governing Council member Gaston Reinesch on Friday.
18 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Thursday that the impact of US tariffs on inflation in the euro area would depend on negotiations with the affected countries, among other factors.
17 April 2025