- Price increases have been lower for a long time
- If it’s because of import prices such as energy and food it’s explainable
- If it starts to take place because of domestic and euro-area factors we need to be careful
- We’re committed to price stability goal of near or below 2%
- Austerity efforts no longer weigh on growth
- Situation in peripheral countries has improved by several notches
- EU countries have completed the biggest adjustment in public finances
- In may countries the worst starts to be over
- Greece no longer poses contagion risk in EU
Finlands Erkki Liikanen in an interview with Finland MTV
