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ECB will be more relaxed about inflation over 2%

We suspect that the ECB will be more tolerant of inflation in the future than it has been in the past. In particular, it is likely to look through a short period of above-target inflation this year. And even if both headline and core inflation remained slightly above 2% next year, it would keep policy extremely loose.

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