By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday urged Europe to strengthen the international role of the euro, arguing that the bloc must move beyond being a “passive safe haven” and build the conditions for the single currency to become a true global force.
7 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday urged the German government to move quickly on structural reforms to revive weak productivity growth, warning that the country’s long-term prosperity was at stake.
7 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday said that the euro area’s disinflationary phase had ended, with inflation around 2% and expected to remain near that level.
6 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Álvaro Santos Pereira said on Monday that the ECB was entering a period of normality in its monetary policy.
6 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Monday that the ECB’s interest rate level remained appropriate as long as the baseline scenario continued to hold, while stressing the need for agility if conditions change.
6 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane’s first major appearance in months was ostensibly a defense of the ECB’s balanced approach to policy, but beneath the calm language of symmetry and data dependence ran a clear subtext: disinflation risks still dominate, and the intellectual groundwork for further easing remains in place.
6 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos on Monday called inflation risks in the euro area balanced and interest rates appropriate, but urged caution.
6 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane on Monday said the euro area’s inflation outlook had become “much more benign” and that monetary policy decisions would depend on how upside and downside risks to price stability evolve.
6 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde may have spoken off the cuff when she described Klaas Knot as fully qualified to succeed her, but her words carry political weight that will not go unnoticed in euro area circles: her assessment of the former De Nederlandsche Bank chief as someone who “could, absolutely” lead the ECB is as close as an incumbent can come to signaling approval in such a politically charged context.
6 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Sunday confirmed that former Governing Council member Klaas Knot had the requisite qualities to be ECB president.
5 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday said that euro area inflation was not presently expected to change much in any direction and that the ECB would do what was needed to stay in its current “good place.”
3 October 2025
By David Barwick – AMSTERDAM (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Friday suggested that markets could be complacent.
3 October 2025
By David Barwick – AMSTERDAM (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Friday urged governments to resist weakening post-crisis banking rules, arguing that strong capital and liquidity positions had made banks a source of stability in recent crises and warning that new risks were emerging outside the banking sector.
3 October 2025
By David Barwick – AMSTERDAM (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch on Friday endorsed ECB President Christine Lagarde’s view that euro area monetary policy was appropriately situated.
3 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Former OECD Chief Economist Álvaro Santos Pereira is set to be formally appointed today as governor of the Banco de Portugal and will assume office on Monday, October 6, according to Portuguese digital newspaper ECO.
3 October 2025
By David Barwick – AMSTERDAM (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday warned that the rise of non-bank financial institutions and signs of “regulatory fatigue” could reintroduce vulnerabilities that stronger oversight since the global financial crisis had largely contained.
3 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Friday that former DNB President Klaas Knot would be well-suited to lead the ECB.
3 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday warned that it would be “naïve” to think the euro could soon replace the US dollar, adding that strengthening the common currency's international role did not necessarily imply expecting a higher exchange rate.
2 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Thursday that the ECB would keep interest rates at current levels unless the economy was hit by another shock.
2 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Germany’s Commerzbank on Thursday published an AI-supported analysis of 17 European Central Bank Governing Council members that found Mārtiņš Kazāks and Gediminas Šimkus to be the members who most reliably signal the evolution of euro area monetary policy.
2 October 2025