By David Barwick – HELSINKI (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday said that monetary policy remained in a good place, with little inflation impact from tariffs and inflation risks to both the downside and the upside well contained.
30 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Tuesday that ECB’s current level of interest rates was appropriate for present conditions, but that a change in the policy environment could warrant an adjustment.
30 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – HELSINKI (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Tuesday highlighted the potential effectiveness of monetary policy persistence.
30 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said on Tuesday that the ECB might need to cut interest rates in December.
30 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Monday said that France was in danger of being crushed under its debt burden.
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Monday said that the digital euro was designed to bolster monetary sovereignty, ensure universal access to safe digital money and enhance the resilience of the European payments system.
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said on Monday that an “elegant reanchoring” of inflation toward the ECB’s 2% target was “plausible,” describing the overall outlook as “benign.”
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that while new technologies and market entrants bring opportunities to payments and settlement, innovation must not be allowed to weaken central bank money, endanger financial stability or escape regulation.
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – TALLINN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Monday said that the digital euro would be a key tool to preserve Europeans’ freedom of choice, safeguard the bloc’s autonomy and strengthen its resilience in the face of global uncertainty.
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Monday said that the ECB was close to being done cutting interest rates.
29 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen on Saturday declined to say whether he considered himself a monetary policy hawk or dove and noted that uncertainty was high.
27 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Friday said the euro area economy had shown “remarkable resilience” and that inflation was set to ease close to the ECB’s target, while warning that trade tensions and geopolitics were keeping risks tilted to the downside.
26 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mário Centeno said on Friday that being in a “good position” should not be mistaken for an absence of risks to inflation.
26 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Friday that markets’ failure to price in risks related to U.S. trade policies, expansionary fiscal measures, and institutional weakening did not mean that significant negative effects could not materialize in the short or medium term.
26 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Thursday again endorsed the ECB’s current monetary policy stance and declined to encourage expectations of another rate cut, suggesting that this would require a major deviation from target.
25 September 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said on Thursday that the 2% inflation target had been reached and that there was no need to rush into more interest rate adjustments.
25 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone's latest message is as striking for its tone as for its content. The Italian policymaker, generally seen as part of the Governing Council’s more dovish contingent, struck an unexpectedly upbeat note on growth and offered no hint of encouragement to those hoping for easier policy.
24 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone on Wednesday expressed a relatively high degree of satisfaction with the economic outlook and predicted that inflation over the next two years would remain close to the ECB’s price stability target.
24 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The deluge of recent European Central Bank communication suggests a Governing Council still largely comfortable with its current stance, even as a few members leave the door ajar for more easing. The pattern emerging from speeches and interviews over the past days is less about fundamentally new perspectives than about positioning, nuance and subtle divergences on risks.
23 September 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday warned that Europe must bolster its economic and financial sovereignty, arguing that a strong euro, deeper capital markets and the development of a digital euro are essential to withstand geopolitical and technological challenges.
22 September 2025 Central Bank News