They fear that honesty about Europe’s economic prospects over the next year or so might cause markets to force it into an unwanted rate cut now. So they exaggerate and tell stories about how the European economy is fundamentally different from the US economy.
ECB的政策制定者们并非失明，而仅仅短视。他们害怕对未来一年左右欧洲经济前景的诚实预测会导致市场施压迫使他们降息。因此他们便夸大其词，描述欧洲经济与美国经济是多么的根本性的不同。