"The path of the ECB" is "clear" to fight inflation and rates need to be raised but "adelante con juicio".
This was stated by the governor of the Bank of Italy Ignazio Visco at the presentation of his new book 'Inflation and monetary policy', published by Laterza and on sale today which traces the actions of the government and the bank since the 1970s.
Visco underlined how the goal of fighting inflation is shared in the Frankfurt council but there is a difference on "methods and times".
"The most important lesson" from the experience of the fight against inflation in Italy over the last few decades is that "only the coherent and cohesive action of monetary policies, the budget and, to use a now somewhat obsolete term, incomes can contrast with successful inflation and quickly bring our country, and the euro area,