18/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with The Financial Times, Otmar Issing, Chief Economist of the European Central Bank, affirmed that, for the euro zone this year and next there will be a substantially higher rate of inflation recorded. This, he added, is not sounding the alarm but a "clairvoyant strategy" demanding that action be taken in time - which, according to experts, indicates that the ECB could decide on a further rise in interest rates, perhaps at its meeting on 2...