Europe’s finance ministers have played a clever game with the ECB. Even though they were already resigned to a 25-basis-point rate increase, the politicians made a big show of being opposed to it, aiming to prevent what they really feared and what was certainly more warranted: a 50-basis-point hike and a warning of more on the way.
欧洲的财政部长们和欧洲央行进行了一场煞费苦心的搏弈。即便他们已经屈从了25基点的利率上升，但这些政客们仍然大张旗鼓地唱反调，其目的在于防止他们真正害怕而却更顺理成章的事发生：一次50基点的利率提升和未来进一步升息的警告。