The recent pick-up in ECB bond purchases has been very small when compared to earlier acquisitions or to the size of the euro-zone economy. Meanwhile, its lending to commercial banks in the region as a whole has continued to ease. Nonetheless, both policies are still a vital crutch for the peripheral economies and should therefore be phased out only with extreme caution.
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