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New energy shock challenges euro area stability
ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone warned that a new energy shock, stemming from the war in Iran and the Middle East, poses significant risks to euro area economic stability.
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Wage tracker shows stable pressures through 2026
The European Central Bank's updated wage tracker indicates that negotiated wage growth is expected to remain stable at around 2.6 percent by the end of 2026.
Lane: Climate change impacts output, inflation, ECB policy
Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, outlined how climate change and the green transition are impacting the euro area economy and the central bank's monetary policy.
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Proposals to strengthen non-bank financial regulation
The European Central Bank's Financial Stability Committee task force proposes strengthening macroprudential regulation for non-bank financial intermediation.
Lagarde: Climate, nature risks sharpen central bank analysis
ECB President Christine Lagarde opened a conference on climate, nature, and monetary policy, emphasizing the need for deeper central bank analysis.
ECB cyber stress tests boost bank investment by 80 percent
The European Central Bank's 2024 Cyber Resilience Stress Test (CyRST) significantly increased cybersecurity investment among 'laggard' European banks.
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Network analysis reveals euro area financial links, bank centrality
A new European Central Bank working paper uses network analysis to map financial interconnections in the euro area economies.
Guindos reviews 2025: Recovery, 2.1% inflation, 2.0% rates
Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB, presented the ECB Annual Report 2025 to the European Parliament.
Cipollone: Digital assets need central bank money
ECB Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone outlined the central bank's strategy for digital assets and tokenisation.
Inequality shapes US policy spillovers, diverts in AEs/EMEs
A new ECB working paper finds income inequality significantly alters how US monetary policy spillovers affect foreign GDP.
ECB forecasters raise 2026 inflation outlook to 2.66 percent
The European Central Bank's Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) for Q2 2026 shows an upward revision to HICP inflation expectations for 2026.
De Guindos: ECB needs prudence, not 2022 playbook
ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos advocates for prudence in monetary policy, cautioning against applying past responses to current geopolitical conflicts.