By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel appears understandably intent on broadening his appeal in France as the contest to succeed ECB President Christine Lagarde heats up, with a strategic interview in French daily Le Monde providing the latest evidence.
2 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A European Central Bank interest rate hike next week is clearly justified by inflation around 3% and the assumptions underlying the ECB’s June projections, though the policy path beyond September remains uncertain, ECB Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday.
2 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank must be prepared to raise interest rates further, including into restrictive territory, if inflation risks shift significantly upward, ECB Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf told the Financial Times in an interview published Wednesday.
2 September 2026
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Bank of Italy's €-coin indicator, a measure of underlying euro area economic growth, rose to 0.84 in August from 0.54 in July, according to a joint release by the Bank of Italy and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) published on Wednesday.
2 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank communication can directly influence household inflation expectations and thus forms part of monetary policy transmission, but credibility ultimately depends on the central bank delivering on its mandate, ECB Vice-President Boris Vujčić said Tuesday.
1 September 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that the monetary policy decision the ECB is expected to take on September 10 was “relatively predictable.”
1 September 2026
By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 31 August 2026 with Gediminas Šimkus, Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
1 September 2026
By David Barwick – VILNIUS (Econostream) – An interest rate hike next week by the European Central Bank is clearly warranted and will probably have to be followed by further tightening, given the strengthening of inflation pressures in the region and the unexpected resilience of the euro area economy, according to ECB Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus.
1 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Tuesday that a further interest rate increase would be needed soon if the ECB's new projections confirm that upside risks to inflation have increased.
1 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A further European Central Bank interest rate increase will be needed soon if updated projections confirm the inflation outlook suggested by recent data, ECB Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Tuesday.
1 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Choosing Bank for International Settlements General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos as the next European Central Bank president could carry an underappreciated cost for Europe: BIS leadership could pass to another region.
1 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Market pricing for an interest rate increase at next week’s European Central Bank meeting is “understandable,” ECB Governing Council member Olli Rehn said Tuesday, warning that policymakers must remain alert to inflation pressures from a potentially prolonged Middle East conflict.
1 September 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter rose significantly this week across both its Governing Council and Executive Board measures, as the few policymakers who spoke in recent days all signaled that a rate hike could be on the table.
28 August 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said central banks should put reserves directly onto programmable distributed ledgers, arguing that doing so would allow them to modernize monetary policy implementation, collateral management and liquidity provision as finance becomes increasingly tokenized.
28 August 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The arguments favor another European Central Bank interest rate hike in September to safeguard the inflation target, Governing Council member Primož Dolenc said Friday, pointing to incoming data showing that inflation was persisting.
28 August 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A further European Central Bank interest rate increase in September remains firmly on the table, ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Friday, warning against allowing inflation to become entrenched.
28 August 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde's decision to appear two weeks from tomorrow at the political rentrée of French centrist Hervé Morin looks more like an intervention in France's emerging 2027 presidential debate than an engagement focused on monetary policy.
28 August 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has asked the International Criminal Court to investigate European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf, who heads the Central Bank of Ireland, over the Irish central bank's role in regulating the sale of Israeli government bonds in the European Union.
28 August 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – As the European Central Bank works through the unfinished elements of its new operational framework, one of the longer-term questions is how structural reserve provision should eventually be divided between refinancing operations and securities holdings.
28 August 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Europe’s economy is proving more resilient than widely thought and showing increasing momentum, ECB Governing Council member Martin Kocher said, while stressing that policymakers remained alert to inflation risks.
28 August 2026