- Essential now to avoid second-round effects from oil prices, particularly wage price spiral
- “Quite possible” food price increases will continue for a while longer
- ECB has not flooded economy with money, never lost sight of mandate when adopting non-standard measures
- German recovery remarkable but still to be fully confirmed; too early to declare crisis over
- When a country experiences a boom it needs own policies to avoid economy overheating
- ECB raised rates in past despite criticism
- ECB has to concern itself with inflation in euro zone as a whole