By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday that US tariffs would have a limited impact on inflation in the euro area, though this effect would be upward.
21 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday said that threatened US tariffs meant the return of uncertainty that could be itself cause economic growth to sputter.
20 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday that he approved of the additional German government spending, given the current state of the world.
20 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Tuesday congratulated his fellow Council member Boris Vujčić, governor of the Croatian National Bank, for having gotten the support of the Eurogroup in the contest to succeed ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos.
20 January 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday that there were multiple factors that could drag inflation down significantly.
20 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Euro area finance ministers’ nomination on Monday of Croatian central bank governor Boris Vujčić to succeed European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos is a mainstream pick from a largely mainstream field.
20 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Euro area finance ministers on Monday agreed to back Croatian National Bank Governor Boris Vujčić to succeed European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos, according to people familiar with the decision.
19 January 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Bulgarian National Bank Governor Dimitar Radev joined the European Central Bank’s Governing Council less than three weeks ago amid close interest in his views. After speaking with him ourselves, his policy instincts remain hard to trace.
19 January 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 17 January 2026 with Dimitar Radev, Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
19 January 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Hiking interest rates would require clearer evidence of persistent services inflation and strong wage dynamics, as well as signs that domestic price pressures were failing to ease as projected, according to Dimitar Radev, governor of the Bulgarian National Bank and member of the European Central Bank Governing Council.
19 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 15 January with Mārtiņš Kazāks, Governor of Latvijas Banka and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
19 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s current interest rate level is appropriate and financial markets’ rate expectations appear broadly aligned with the baseline outlook, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks.
19 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks warned that European policymakers should not be “naive” about the bloc’s exposure to Russia and said the financial system needed to be prepared for escalation.
18 January 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – This week the ECB Tone Meter moved in opposite directions for the Governing Council and the Executive Board, settling at +0.9 and +0.13 respectively, with both readings remaining in very marginally hawkish territory.
16 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank vice president’s role is defined by three core tasks, according to ECB Governing Council member Olli Rehn.
16 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane’s La Stampa interview published today was disciplined in form—baseline first, uncertainty explicit, reaction function articulated—but not perfectly neutral in substance. Using our ECB Tone Meter , we scored the intervention at -0.25: dovish, though only marginally.
16 January 2026
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The Baltic states have moved to reclaim the initiative in the contest to succeed European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos, issuing a joint statement that frames the appointment as a question of representation and seeks to keep a “Baltic turn” argument alive.
16 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane on Wednesday gave markets a line they will not forget quickly: “The current level of the interest rate delivers the baseline for the next several years.”
16 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane on Friday said euro area inflation was moving onto a more durable 2% footing and suggested interest rates were likely to remain broadly stable unless the outlook shifted materially.
16 January 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs committee has moved unusually early in the contest to succeed European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos, with its coordinators backing Latvia’s Mārtiņš Kazāks and Portugal’s Mário Centeno as the preferred candidates after informal exchanges of views with all six contenders.
15 January 2026