By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said Monday that the digital euro is essential to preserving monetary sovereignty and ensuring that central bank money remains usable in an increasingly digital economy.
17 November 2025
By David Barwick – DUBLIN (Econostream) – Ireland faces a challenging global environment marked by elevated financial stability risks, even as domestic households, businesses and banks remain broadly resilient, the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) said Monday in its Financial Stability Review 2025:II.
17 November 2025
By David Barwick – DUBLIN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Monday said that he was content with the ECB’s current monetary policy stance and open to whatever rate path developments dictated.
17 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen said on Monday that, based on the ECB’s latest projections and the information gathered since September, there was no justification for adjusting interest rates.
17 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Monday that although the ECB remained concerned about sluggish economic growth, the broader macroeconomic backdrop had improved compared with last year.
17 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Saturday said that there remained a risk of euro area inflation again becoming too low.
15 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said in an interview published Thursday that extreme optimism around artificial intelligence technology had created concentration risks in equity markets and that valuations could fall sharply.
13 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that the French economy remained “fairly resilient” and that growth in 2026 should reach “at least” 0.9%.
12 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Wednesday that the ECB should remain “relaxed” unless a “big shock” were to trigger a sustained deviation from its medium-term inflation goal.
12 November 2025
By David Barwick – TIRANA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Edward Scicluna on Tuesday suggested that changing interest rates in the current, relatively balanced policy environment would amount to tempting fate.
11 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Tuesday that reality kept proving pessimistic forecasts wrong, but it was yet to know if that would continue to be the case.
11 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that inflation risks were balanced and economic growth had held up better than anticipated.
11 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said on Tuesday that the ECB should remain ready to respond if risks shift, stressing the need to preserve policy space.
11 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson on Tuesday said the ECB’s monetary policy stance remained appropriate and that rate decisions would continue to depend on incoming data.
11 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen warned on Tuesday that widening fiscal gaps among euro area countries and rising political uncertainty could weaken the transmission of monetary policy.
11 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Monday that the ECB must continue to set monetary policy with prudence and caution even though uncertainty has recently eased.
10 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Friday said that Greece’s experience during its debt crisis showed how fiscal imbalances, weak institutions and delayed reforms can threaten stability across the euro area.
7 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Frank Elderson said on Friday that the ECB had decided to keep interest rates unchanged at its last policy meeting because conditions remained broadly as in September and some downside risks had moderated.
7 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Friday that the ECB had succeeded in bringing inflation close to its 2% target and projected that Germany’s economic growth would exceed 1% in 2027.
7 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić on Friday echoed other policymakers’ warnings of over-valued financial assets and suggested that this could be a harbinger of negative developments.
7 November 2025