Euro’s strength won’t curb the ECB

The recent appreciation of the euro exchange rate has led to suggestions that the European Central Bank can afford to take its finger off the interest rate trigger. After all, conventional indicators suggest that policy conditions are now as restrictive as they were back in 2001, when interest rates were much higher at 4.75%

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