Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Saturday blamed the European Central Bank for a recent jump in oil prices and market interest rates, saying its president, Jean Claude Trichet, had to show more prudence. Trichet last week warned that interest rates could be raised next month.
Asked about Zapatero's remarks, German government spokesman Thomas Steg said Germany viewed the ECB's independence as sacrosanct.
"We have no criticism to make of the ECB or of Mr Trichet. If Mr Zapatero sees this differently, he has to explain that," Steg told a regular government news conference in Berlin.
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Hi, JJ!
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Well, Norway is far away from any other country in the world. I don't think we'll ever be there. Finland has been the benchmark against many regions in Spain have been measured, but I don't think we've reached them, no way. Corruption has been reined in since Felipe González left office, but it's still rampant at the local level. All in all, while we're closer to, for instance, Italy than we used to be, and there's not such a big difference Belgium, for instance (to name a few countries I've recently visited), Germany , UK and France are really out there, and we're not getting any closer. |
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