By Marta Vilar and David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Wednesday firmly rejected calls for further monetary policy easing in the euro area and downplayed concerns about the euro’s exchange rate strength.
11 July 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 3 July 2025 with Esther Finnbogadóttir, head of funding and debt management of the Icelandic Ministry of Finance.
10 July 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The Ministry of Finance of Iceland could issue the 2044 bond it announced in Q4, according to its Head of Funding and Debt Management, Esther Finnbogadóttir.
10 July 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said on Wednesday that there was no reason to cut interest rates again in 2025.
9 July 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that it would not be appropriate for policymakers to promise or exclude further easing.
9 July 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Wednesday that he hoped the euro would stabilise and that its strength would have no additional negative impact.
9 July 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s June rate cut was intended to prevent temporary inflation undershooting from becoming more lasting, ECB Executive Board member Philip Lane said Wednesday, adding that high uncertainty continued to call for a data-dependent, meeting-by-meeting approach.
9 July 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that incoming data would determine if the ECB had to lower rates further or if it would be better off keeping them at current levels.
8 July 2025
By David Barwick - TALLINN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that it was important that Germany not lose sight of the need for sustainable fiscal developments.
7 July 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – With less than a year to go until the next anticipated vacancy on the European Central Bank’s Executive Board—Vice President Luis de Guindos is set to depart at the end of May 2026—we consider it timely to examine some of the policymakers regarded as potential Board candidates.
7 July 2025
By David Barwick - TALLINN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that he saw indications of a German economic recovery ahead and was thus cautiously optimistic.
7 July 2025
By Marta Vilar – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 2 July with Mário Centeno, Governor of the Banco de Portugal and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank.
7 July 2025
By Marta Vilar – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should react if economic growth continues to stagnate and inflation stays close to 1% in the coming quarters, according to ECB Governing Council member Mário Centeno.
7 July 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Saturday said that monetary policy restrictiveness had been mostly removed.
5 July 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Today, we undertake another member-by-member review of the European Central Bank Governing Council, this time with respect to the likelihood of support for a rate cut in September.
4 July 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday that there was a risk that inflation would undershoot the ECB's 2% target if the strength of the euro were to persist.
4 July 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Friday that the ECB had delivered price stability, given euro area inflation of 2%, and would continue to do so at all cost.
4 July 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf on Friday said that being agile meant being sensitive to the ramifications of major shocks.
4 July 2025
By Marta Vilar – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said on Wednesday that he was not uncomfortable with current market expectations for euro area monetary policy.
2 July 2025
By Marta Vilar – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Wednesday that he was worried about persistently undershooting the ECB's inflation target.
2 July 2025