ING analysts say the ECB's most powerful tools are the ones developed after the euro crisis, including Outright Monetary Transactions and the Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI), which allow bond purchases when financing conditions deteriorate for reasons not justified by country fundamentals. Activating TPI requires compliance with the EU fiscal framework, which at a minimum means France's proposed budget must be fully adopted. The article argues that early intervention for France would be hard to justify to other member states, so the ECB is likely to first take a more dovish approach to policy rates, then pause quantitative tightening and reinvest maturing bonds flexibly. TPI remains the ultimate option if contagion spreads in eurozone bond markets, but the current French situation is not enough to trigger it. Further escalation could force the ECB to prove whether its “whatever it takes” commitment still holds.
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