Category: Economic and Monetary Policy
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Deposit Rate Climbs to 2.50 percent as Price Pressure Proves Sticky
Frankfurt: For most of the past two years the European Central Bank’s Governing Council met…
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Rate Rise Lands Because Energy Prices Refuse to Come Back Down
Frankfurt: The Governing Council was sitting in Berlin rather than on the Main when it…
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Estonian Borrowers Absorb a Quarter Point Decided in Frankfurt
Tallinn: The European Central Bank raised its three key ECB rates by 25 basis points…
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Energy Costs Drive Euro Area Inflation Back Above Target
Eurostat confirmed on 17 September that annual inflation in the euro area reached 3.2 per…
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Finland Entered the Deficit List While Nine Older Cases Wait
Helsinki: Finland entered the excessive deficit procedure in the Commission’s autumn package while nine older…
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Who Decides the Digital Euro Holding Limit Is Still Unsettled
Bratislava: Slovak retailers process a high share of card payments, and almost all of it…
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Rate Setters Chose a Second Hike and the Data Barely Argued
Frankfurt: The Governing Council raised its three key interest rates by a quarter point on…
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Can Sofia Fix an Excessive Deficit in Its First Euro Year
Sofia will file its first draft budgetary plan as a euro area member next month,…
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Asset Managers Fight the Capital Markets Supervision Plan
Lyon: Regional fund managers here have no intention of being supervised from Paris, let alone…
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Digital Euro Talks Enter Trilogue With a 2027 Pilot at Stake
Ljubljana: Slovenian shoppers reach for a card issued under one of two American schemes almost…
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Bulgaria Has Five Weeks to Show the Council a Deficit Fix Plan
Plovdiv: Bulgarian shopkeepers repriced their shelves in euro at the start of January. Six months…
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Trilogues Begin on a Currency That Nobody Can Spend Yet
Frankfurt: Technical teams at the European Central Bank started building a digital euro pilot this…
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Will Rising Energy Prices Push ECB Rates Up on 10 September?
Energy did the damage, and ECB rates will probably pay for it on Thursday. Eurostat’s…
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Inflation Reached 3.3 Percent in August as Energy Prices Bit
Frankfurt: Euro area inflation climbed to 3.3 per cent in August according to the flash…
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ESM Reform Waits on Rome Until Italian Voters Return in 2027
Bergamo: Five years after every euro area government signed it, the treaty that would complete…
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Eleven Member States Face Deficit Procedure as Budget Season Opens
Helsinki: Eleven member states now sit inside the EU deficit procedure, and the Commission will…
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Trilogues on the Digital Euro Begin With Holding Limits Unsettled
Valletta: A Maltese shopkeeper taking a card payment sends a fee to a network headquartered…
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Energy Prices Pushed Euro Area Inflation Back Above Three Percent
Porto: Portuguese households opening August electricity bills found the same thing shoppers across the currency…
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Six Months After the Euro Bulgaria Faces an Excessive Deficit
Sofia: Bulgaria adopted the euro in January and by July found itself inside an excessive…
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Energy Costs Did Almost All the Work in August’s Inflation Jump
Riga: Households across the euro area opened August with a familiar complaint about heating and…
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Bulgaria Has Six Weeks to Prove It Can Bring the Deficit Down
Sofia: Bulgaria adopted the euro on 1 January 2026 and collected a disciplinary file before…
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Energy Is Doing Almost All the Work in Euro Area Prices
Porto: Eurostat releases the August flash estimate for euro area consumer prices tomorrow morning, and…
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Finland Joins the Deficit List While Nine Older Cases Sit Frozen
Helsinki: Europe’s rebuilt fiscal rulebook produced an odd result in its second full cycle. The…
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What Happens to Unfinished Recovery Projects After Monday Night
Plovdiv: A water treatment plant that is ninety percent built on 31 August is, for…