德国央行行长谢益辉和普丽西拉？阿泽维多？罗查（Priscila Azevedo Rocha）批评了该国今年夏天在补充天然气库存方面进展缓慢，称如果欧洲今年冬天不得不加大昂贵的天然气采购，就有可能引发通胀。
Germany’s central bank president criticized the country’s slow progress in filling up natural gas inventories this summer, arguing that it risks fanning inflation if Europe has to boost expensive purchases this winter.
德国央行行长内格尔（Joachim Nagel）周一在意大利索伦托（Sorrento）发表讲话时表示：“我发现，在去年冬天之后，当我们得知天然气储备减少时，这在战略上可能不是最好的决定。”“开春没有加快速度，重新把库填满。”几天前，德国政府指示国有的SEFE Secureing Energy for Europe GmbH在未来几周内购买和储存天然气。
“I found it strategically maybe not the best decision when we learned after the last winter that the storage of gas” went down, Bundesbank chief Joachim Nagel said Monday during a speech in Sorrento, Italy. “It didn’t speed up at the beginning of spring to fill up the storage again.”The comments come days after the German government instructed state-owned SEFE Securing Energy for Europe GmbH to buy and store gas in the coming weeks.
经济部长凯瑟琳娜·赖什（Katherina Reiche）拒绝在库存季节大部分时间进行干预的呼吁，认为公用事业公司和贸易商有责任填满储存地点，异常低的库存不会威胁能源安全。
Economy Minister Katherina Reiche had resisted calls to intervene for much of the stockpiling season, arguing that utilities and traders were responsible for filling storage sites and that unusually low inventories didn’t threaten energy security.
相比之下，在2022年能源危机期间，政府花费了数十亿欧元购买国家支持的天然气，这有助于确保冬季缓冲，但也推动价格创下历史新高。
By contrast, during the 2022 energy crisis, the government spent billions of euros on state-backed gas purchases, helping to secure winter buffers but also driving prices to record highs.
今年的做法使德国依赖市场来重建去年冬天后已经耗尽的库存。但伊朗战争连续第二年颠覆了储存的经济性，将近期天然气期货推至冬季价格上方，并削弱了交易员将燃料投入地下的动力。
Its approach this year has left Germany reliant on the market to rebuild inventories that were already depleted after last winter. But the Iran war upended the economics of storage for a second year, pushing near-term gas futures above winter prices and eroding traders’ incentive to put fuel underground.
内格尔说：“我们惨痛地吸取了教训，现在的价格比春季的价格水平还要高。”他补充说，“欧元区通胀前景由上行风险主导”，“天然气价格尤其脆弱”。德国的天然气储存地点目前已满59%，是自2009年以来该季度记录中的最低水平，也低于欧盟72%的平均水平。电网和存储运营商警告称，按照目前的注入速度，到11月1日几乎不可能实现约70%的法定存储目标。
“We learned the lesson in a hard way, that the price is now even higher compared to the price level that we had in springtime,” Nagel said. He added that “upward risks dominate the inflation outlook for the euro area” and that “gas prices are especially vulnerable.”Germany’s gas-storage sites are now about 59% full, the lowest for the season in records going back to 2009, and below a European Union average of 72%. Grid and storage operators have warned that at the current speed of injections, it will be nearly impossible to meet a legal storage target of about 70% by Nov. 1.
欧洲央行已两次加息以应对伊朗战争，政策制定者不排除采取进一步行动，经济学家预测将于12月采取最终行动。自战争爆发以来，欧洲天然气价格上涨了一倍多。
The European Central Bank has raised interest rates twice in response to the Iran war, with policymakers not ruling out further action and economists predicting a final move in December. European gas prices have more than doubled since the start of the war.