• No compromises in pursuit of price stability
  • Sees inflation as stable over medium-term
  • EZ recovery is becoming more or less self-sustaining

Trichet is on the wires as well:

  • We will always do what is necessary
  • We are never precommitted
  • Present interest rates are appropriate
  • Banks that need to should recapitalize
  • Data confirms gradual recovery
  • Does not exclude using EFSF funds for recapitalizing banks, buying bonds (it is starting to sound like a piggy bank rather than a rescue fund…)