ECB: Lessons from 2022 warrant an insurance hike

In Short

Just as the post‑pandemic inflation shock was fading, the Iran war in March 2026 sent energy prices sharply higher and darkened the inflation outlook—reviving uneasy mem-ories in the ECB tower. ECB research suggests public trust did weaken during the last surge: Eurobarometer net trust in the ECB turned negative in early 2022, and CES mi-crodata show the “no trust at all” group rising by late 2023.
ECB: Lessons from 2022 warrant an insurance hike
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