By Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s Governing Council on Thursday left its key interest rates unchanged and released updated staff projections pointing to stronger growth across the forecast horizon and inflation at 2.0% in 2028.
18 December 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The list of euro area officials seeking to become European Central Bank vice president when current officeholder Luis de Guindos’ term ends on June 1, 2026, has grown with the addition of a Lithuanian candidate, Econostream understands.
18 December 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - Germany is set to scale up its sovereign debt issuance next year, with the Federal Republic now planning to refinance and borrow a total of about €512 billion through auctions of federal securities in 2026 plus three conventional syndications, according to the latest issuance outlook, published by the German Finance Agency on Thursday.
18 December 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Two days before the European Central Bank’s final monetary policy decision of the year, all meaningful signals point to a unanimous hold, a press conference focused on interpreting the updated projections and managing the risk that a stronger macro outlook is misread as a signal of impending monetary tightening, and a policy outlook that keeps rates at 2% well into 2026 absent a significant shock.
16 December 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The formal launch last week of the race to succeed European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos has had one immediate effect: it has made Portugal’s refusal to commit publicly to Mário Centeno look less like caution and more like strategy.
15 December 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 11 December 2025 with Saskia Van Dun, Agent of the Dutch State Treasury Agency:
12 December 2025 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The Dutch State Treasury Agency is “not very concerned” about the impact of the country’s pension reform on the long end of the curve, given mitigating factors and the fact that part of the effect has already been priced in, according to DSTA Agent Saskia van Dun.
12 December 2025 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The Dutch State Treasury Agency plans to raise around €50bn in Dutch State Loans (DSLs) in 2026, while beginning to shorten the target minimum average maturity of its debt portfolio under a newly adopted debt management framework, according to its Outlook 2026, published on Friday.
12 December 2025 Central Bank News
ECB Comment Recap: Broad Support for Holding Rates, Some Debate Persists on Response to Inflation Deviations
12 December 2025 Central Bank NewsBy David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Investment Bank on Thursday said it expects to raise €60 billion in 2026.
11 December 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar - MADRID (Econostream) - European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that the ECB’s proposed supervisory simplifications would make Additional Tier 1 instruments more akin to equity.
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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The ECB’s Governing Council’s tone in the ECB Tone Meter moved above 0 on Wednesday for the first time this cycle, following comments from an Executive Board member who opened the door to an interest rate hike as the next move and a shift by several previously dovish Council members who now explicitly support holding rates steady in December.
10 December 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank remains in a good place, given current inflation and interest rates, ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Wednesday.
10 December 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that it would likely be “wise” to keep interest rates at their current levels for now while maintaining flexibility, adding that there was no reason to a expect a hike in the near future.
10 December 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday that she expects another upward revision to growth forecasts at the Governing Council’s December meeting.
10 December 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said Wednesday that ECB interest rates don’t need to be lowered further, pointing to stronger-than-expected economic activity and inflation close to the ECB’s medium-term target.
10 December 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – RIGA (Econostream) – Chinese exports to Europe will likely intensify further, with ramifications for euro area monetary policy, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Tuesday
10 December 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Wednesday expressed confidence that euro area inflation will converge to the ECB’s 2% target over the medium term, according to remarks published by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI).
10 December 2025 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Tuesday that the long-term evolution of the international monetary system will hinge on slow-moving structural forces and that both the dollar’s traditional supports and the architecture of its main contenders are undergoing gradual change.
9 December 2025 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel’s latest intervention does not mark a new “turn” so much as the clearest consolidation of a line she has been following for months: small, forecast-based undershoots of 2% can be tolerated, while the real dangers still run to the upside.
9 December 2025 Central Bank News