The account of the ECB’s April meeting shows that a lot of policymakers thought the criteria for rate hikes had already been met. Since then, the case for rate hikes has only strengthened. While not our central forecast, a 50bp hike in July is increasingly likely, and even a June hike is not out of the question.
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