歐洲央行啟動1.1兆歐元經濟復甦拯救計畫

ECB launches €1.1 trillion rescue plan to revive economy

The European Central Bank took the ultimate policy leap on Thursday, launching a government bond-buying programme which will pump hundreds of billions in new money into a sagging euro zone economy.

The ECB said it would purchase sovereign debt from this March until the end of September 2016, despite opposition from Germany's Bundesbank and concerns in Berlin that it could allow spendthrift countries to slacken economic reforms.

Together with existing schemes to buy private debt and funnel hundreds of billions of euros in cheap loans to banks, the new quantitative easing programme will release 60 billion euros ($84.5 billion) a month into the economy, ECB President Mario Draghi said.

歐洲央行週四大動作啟用公債券購入計畫，以此吸引一兆新資金給疲軟的歐元經濟。

儘管德國央行反對，歐洲央行仍宣布將從三月開始購買主權債務直到2016年九月底。柏林方面擔心這會使經濟改革受到某些揮霍無度的國家所拖累。

歐洲央行總裁Mario Draghi說，搭配現有的購買私營債務計畫和放一兆歐元廉價貸款給銀行的舉措，新的量化寬鬆政策可以每月釋出六百億歐元(八千四百五十億澳幣)給歐元經濟體。