By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Saturday presented the case for further monetary policy tightening, with her slides saying that the ECB was expected to raise interest rates further to bring inflation back to its 2% target over the medium term.
27 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter continued to decline in both its Governing Council and Executive Board measures, as policymakers have generally refrained from signaling that the ECB should hike interest rates at its next meeting.
26 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Eurozone consumers’ short-term inflation expectations fell markedly in May, while their assessment of inflation for three and five years ahead remained unchanged, the European Central Bank said on Friday.
26 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 19 June 2026 with Denis Beau, deputy governor of the Banque de France and designated chair of the ACPR.
25 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The European banking framework has become unnecessarily complex in some areas and concerns about the credibility of European supervision should no longer stand in the way of efforts to simplify regulation and supervision, according to Banque de France Deputy Governor Denis Beau.
25 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel’s interview with Die Zeit is hawkish, at first glance perhaps surprisingly so, but closer inspection argues against overinterpretation.
25 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ante Žigman said Wednesday that the peace agreement, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the fall in oil prices would have a positive effect on inflation, even as he defended the ECB’s latest rate hike as necessary to bring price pressures under control.
24 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Wednesday said further rate hikes would be needed from today’s perspective to return inflation to the ECB’s 2% target over the medium term.
24 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s July rate decision will depend less on whether the Middle East shock has formally eased than on whether the shock is still working its way into the Eurozone inflation process.
24 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Wednesday said the digital euro should become a core element of payments in Europe, arguing that it would modernize central bank money, support European sovereignty and help Europe compete in digital finance.
24 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that the ECB was not prepared to provide forward guidance and wanted to keep "every meeting live."
23 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – LONDON (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that the latest energy futures curve was tracking somewhere between the ECB's milder and baseline scenarios, while stressing that uncertainty remained elevated.
23 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír on Tuesday said the direction of ECB monetary policy was clear and that the central bank still had work to do, while stressing that the timing of any further action would depend on incoming data.
23 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Tuesday that the ECB raised interest rates in June because failing to respond to the energy shock risked allowing it to evolve into a broader and more persistent inflation problem, adding that policymakers remained mindful of the negative effects of higher prices on economic activity.
23 June 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Tuesday that policymakers had assigned a higher probability in recent weeks to a diplomatic resolution of the conflict in the Middle East.
23 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane’s remarks to the European Parliament on Tuesday were broadly consistent with ECB President Christine Lagarde’s statement the day before, but not identical in emphasis.
23 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Tuesday said the ECB’s June rate increase was appropriate and robust, citing the energy shock’s pass-through to broader inflation and persistent upside risks.
23 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday said Greece must maintain fiscal discipline, protect its banking system and raise productivity through investment and reforms to preserve the gains made since its debt crisis.
23 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday rejected comparisons between the current environment and the stagflation of the 1970s, saying the ECB would act to prevent inflation from becoming embedded.
22 June 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Next to her June 11 press conference, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s statement on Monday at the European Parliament didn’t let through much daylight. But it let through some.
22 June 2026