By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank's latest wage tracker offers little evidence of renewed excessive wage pressure, but its forward profile confirms that the long decline in negotiated wage growth may be coming to an end just as policymakers are watching for signs that the latest energy shock is feeding into domestic inflation.
16 September 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said on Tuesday that rising inflation expectations were one of the factors behind the recent global bond market selloff, making it essential for central banks to maintain their credibility.
15 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Staff Committee has urged ECB President Christine Lagarde and the Executive Board to provide clarity about possible senior departures and safeguard the continuity of internal reforms, warning that prolonged leadership uncertainty could undermine trust in the institution’s communications and complicate succession planning.
15 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Europe should simplify its extensive banking regulations but must not reduce capital requirements in the name of competitiveness, European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said in a podcast released Tuesday.
15 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The case for further European Central Bank tightening is growing, and interest rates may need to move gradually into restrictive territory before higher energy costs spread more broadly to wages and prices, Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks told Reuters.
14 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Europe must develop its own artificial intelligence capacity to capture the technology’s economic gains without surrendering control over its data or becoming strategically dependent on foreign providers, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Monday.
14 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Governing Council expects to make its final decision around the end of this year on the design of the next generation of euro banknotes, ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said Monday.
14 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said Monday that stabilizing public debt would require large fiscal adjustments as governments faced growing demands from defense, interest payments, aging and climate change alongside slowing potential growth.
14 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member and Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras on Monday said monetary policy tightening became necessary when supply-driven inflation threatened to broaden and become entrenched, arguing that timely action could reduce the risk of more abrupt and painful rate increases later.
14 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member and Lietuvos bankas Governor Gediminas Šimkus said Monday that policymakers would already be able to assess the inflation outlook in October, while the December meeting would bring more data and updated projections.
14 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank needs time to determine whether the persistent energy shock is spreading to longer-term inflation expectations, wages and prices before deciding its next move, Governing Council member and Národná banka Slovenska Governor Peter Kažimír said Monday.
14 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Eurozone governments aim to agree by the end of December on a “grand package” covering the European Central Bank presidency and two other Executive Board positions, the Financial Times reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
14 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member and Austrian National Bank Governor Martin Kocher said the current energy shock could result in temporarily higher inflation, but that the overshoot must be brief and inflation should return to target "within about a year."
13 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank was obliged to raise interest rates because the energy shock was proving more persistent than initially expected and the euro area economy remained resilient, ECB President Christine Lagarde said Saturday.
12 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Keeping inflation at 2% over time ensures that external shocks pass rather than become embedded in persistently higher inflation, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Saturday.
12 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said Friday that he supported Thursday’s 25bp rate increase because inflation remained above target with upside risks, core inflation had yet to ease decisively and growth had remained resilient, while warning that substantially more tightening could impose meaningful economic costs.
11 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus declined Friday to predict further interest rate moves one day after the ECB’s latest hike, stressing the need for caution in communicating about future decisions even as he said inflation remained too high.
11 September 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter declined this week across both its Governing Council and Executive Board measures, as policymakers emerged from the September meeting stopping short of calling for another hike, while signaling that further tightening remained a possibility amid elevated inflation risks.
11 September 2026
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ulo Kaasik said Friday that it was “understandable” that financial markets expected further ECB rate hikes, pointing to significant upside risks to the inflation outlook.
11 September 2026
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Friday that the outlook was still too uncertain to judge whether additional interest rate increases would be needed in the euro area, while warning that inflation risks remained elevated and underlying price pressures required continued vigilance.
11 September 2026