2012年下半年以来,欧元区国家颇为平静,投资者对欧元区国家经济前景的担忧开始减轻,甚至开始乐观地认为欧元区国家正在走出危机。但今年初以来,地中海岛国塞浦路斯债务危机的出现,又使人们重新陷入悲观。面对创纪录的失业率和经济萎缩,欧洲央行坚持保持宽松货币政策,5月21日欧洲央行如市场预期降息0.25个百分点。 Since the second half of 2012, the euro-zone countries have been quite calm, investors’ worries about the economic prospects of the euro-zone countries have started to ease, and even optimistic they are starting to think the euro-zone countries are getting out of the crisis. However, since the beginning of this year, the emergence of the debt crisis in Cyprus, a Mediterranean island nation, again brought people back to pessimism. The face of record unemployment and economic contraction, the European Central Bank insisted on easing monetary policy, on May 21 the European Central Bank cut the market as expected 0.25 percentage point.