The recent pick-up in German wage growth is encouraging and we think that fears of a sharp rise in inflation and loss of competitiveness are unwarranted. Our one misgiving is that the ECB might respond to modest inflationary pressure in Germany by limiting support for the euro-zone as a whole.
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