A number of European Central Bank policymakers expressed doubts over the decision to start cutting interest rates in June because inflation and wages were heading in the opposing direction, according to the official account of last month’s meeting.
After the decision, ECB president Christine Lagarde said only one of the 26 council members, which later turned out to be Austrian central bank governor Robert Holzmann, had opposed a cut.
But the ECB said on Thursday that “some members” of the council had argued “there was a case for keeping interest rates unchanged” given that “wage growth had surprised to the upside and inflation seemed to be stickier, mainly on account of services”.
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