“Fighting inflation is one of the central bank’s most important tasks for our common currency,” Scholz said at a joint press conference in Berlin with the Greek Prime Minister, responding to a question on the inflationary burden weighing on both countries.
“Inflation challenges our citizens and our companies, so that is a good decision by the ECB,” he said.
(This story has been corrected to remove an erroneous reference to upcoming ECB rate decision in paragraph 3)
