ECB’s Newest Governor Warns of Danger From Inflation ‘Disease’

  • Croatia’s Vujcic sees consumer prices as ‘dominant goal’
  • Governing Council to grow to 26 with enlargement of euro area

Boris Vujcic

Photographer: Petar Santini/Bloomberg
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The European Central Bank’s newest policy maker has plenty to say on the danger of consumer prices running out of control during a war.

Croatian National Bank Governor Boris Vujcic can remember only too well how his country suffered inflation of 1,500% during the 1990s as it fought for independence from the former Yugoslavia. He is adamant that euro-zone policy makers need to act aggressively.