By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should cut interest rates again by 25bp in April, given the mounting downside risks associated with new US tariffs, in the view of ECB Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus.
8 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Christodoulos Patsalides on Monday echoed warnings that global developments could threaten the disinflation process and potentially produce stagflation.
7 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Monday predicted an important blow to euro area economic growth from the new US tariffs, whose net effect he insisted would prove deflationary.
7 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Saturday that uncertainty could increase even further.
5 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – In the immediate aftermath of the imposition by the US of sweeping tariffs on the rest of the world, we can’t help but notice that nobody from the European Central Bank’s Governing Council has actually suggested that this is a new reason to put the monetary policy easing process on pause this month.
4 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said on Thursday that tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump were to a large extent incorporated in the gloomiest scenarios of the ECB’s projections.
3 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Our last member-by-member review of the European Central Bank Governing Council was only Tuesday, but the announcement on Wednesday evening of US tariffs has led to a couple of changes ostensibly favouring a pause.
3 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Thursday that the ECB would have to recalibrate the situation after yesterday’s tariff announcement by the US.
3 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Thursday reiterated his support for another ECB rate cut, dismissing the new US tariffs.
3 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Looking at European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos’ latest comments alongside those made by him previously, it is hard to escape the conclusion that he has grown suddenly less supportive of further monetary policy easing in the near term.
3 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Thursday said that monetary policymakers needed to be ‘extremely prudent’.
3 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 1 April 2025 with Rasa Kavolytė, Director of the State Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania.:
3 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Lithuania is planning to deliver a bond issuance around the 20-year tenor soon if market conditions allow for it, according to Rasa Kavolytė, Director of the State Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania.
3 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Thursday that it was too early to evaluate what the impact of the recently announced US tariffs was going to be.
3 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Trade tensions are apt to worsen existing problems in Europe, and the heightened uncertainty could hamper an investment-driven recovery, according to European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde late Wednesday.
2 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Wednesday said that US tariffs on Europe would probably not substantially affect the disinflation process in the euro area.
2 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said on Wednesday that the ECB was already at neutral territory and that there was no need for more interest rate cuts.
2 April 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – If it ever made sense for European Central Bank Governing Council members to avoid going out on any limbs, it does now, with mere hours to go until US President Donald Trump vents and in doing so initiates a key round of the burgeoning trade conflict.
2 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – PARIS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Wednesday that developments in the US could have an impact on the ECB’s decisions.
2 April 2025
By Marta Vilar – PARIS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Wednesday that trade tensions would impact negatively on growth and positively on inflation.
2 April 2025