The European Central Bank said on Thursday that it has adopted a symmetric 2 percent inflation target that will allow a temporary overshoot and decided to incorporate climate change considerations into its policy framework, following a monetary policy review that was launched last year.
"This target is symmetric, meaning negative and positive deviations of inflation from the target are equally undesirable," the bank said in its latest monetary policy strategy review statement.
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