Employment statistics remain positive, but growth in GDP has turned out contrary to predictions: 0.7% this year. The energy crisis has been halted; however, prices for gas, electricity and fuel remain out of reach of many households. Purchasing power is stagnating and the policy of the ECB, while having the merit, through successive increases of the headline rates (see EUROPE B13250A1), of stalling inflation and making saving slightly more worthwhile, has produced a high interest rate for...