The Paris meeting affords the ECB an opportunity to make a political statement – its “Declaration of Independence,” so to speak – by raising interest rates on French soil. Trichet already has cleared the way for this to happen.
巴黎会议给欧洲央行提供了一次发出政治宣言的机会，可以看作是它的“独立宣言”，即在法国领土上提高利率。特里谢已经为此扫清了障碍。六月份，欧洲央行放弃了它一贯坚持的不在法兰克福以外改变利率的做法，在马德里把利率提高了25个基点。