By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Thursday said financial stability has always been integral to central banking, though its prominence has fluctuated over time, and warned that the challenges to safeguarding it are constantly changing.
6 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that the ECB had become somewhat more optimistic about economic growth and that the current level of interest rates remained appropriate.
6 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Thursday said the ECB’s planned structural securities portfolio should be weighted toward shorter-dated assets to preserve policy space, maintain stance neutrality and support financial soundness.
6 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday said that monetary authorities would entertain further easing if the outlook weakened further.
5 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – PARIS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that while the ECB was in a good position, this did not make it permanent.
5 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – PARIS (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said on Wednesday that inflation would return to the ECB’s 2% target even if it falls below that level temporarily next year.
5 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Tuesday urged Europe to act decisively to strengthen its security and economic resilience, warning that the continent could otherwise become a “plaything of the major powers” in an increasingly power-based world order.
4 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday said the euro area economy had shown remarkable resilience despite a volatile global environment, but warned that long-standing structural shortcomings and heightened geopolitical and political risks continued to weigh on growth prospects.
4 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Tuesday that the traditional engine of global growth, driven by trade globalization, integrated supply chains and strong migration flows, was now losing momentum.
4 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Tuesday that risks to economic growth remained skewed to the downside, with recent data confirming a persistently weak outlook.
4 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday said Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro from January 1, 2026 would mark the culmination of a long integration process that promises greater economic prosperity and protection against global volatility.
4 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus on Monday suggested that the expected deviations of inflation in the future were negligible.
3 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Former European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Monday that he viewed inflation risks in the euro area as balanced, but warned that this stability remained fragile in the face of ongoing volatility.
3 November 2025
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on Monday said that though the ECB's initial 2028 macroeconomic forecast due in December would be of interest, its importance was much less than that of the corresponding projections for next year and the year after.
3 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Former European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Monday that rolling back banking regulations would be a mistake, as it could raise the likelihood of future financial crises.
3 November 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said on Monday that the ECB should not fine-tune its policy stance and that the next interest rate move could go in either direction.
3 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that monetary authorities were not foreclosing on any option for their December interest rate decision, but that information available since September’s policy meeting had not changed.
3 November 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Following Thursday’s decision to leave interest rates alone, European Central Bank Governing Council policymakers wasted little time signaling that the December Eurosystem staff projections – the first to include 2028 inflation – should not be over-interpreted.
31 October 2025
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday that the ECB should retain full optionality in its actions ahead and that “agile pragmatism” was more essential than ever.
31 October 2025
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn on Friday said that data had not warranted a rate cut on Thursday and that it made sense to wait for more information.
31 October 2025