Euro Zone Inflation Surges on Iran War Energy Shock, ECB Rate Hike Pressure Mounts

📉 FRANKFURT — The ECB was supposed to be done hiking; now Tehran may have other plans. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Brent above $100 feeds directly into headline CPI across Germany, France, Italy — economies already absorbing the Hormuz supply shock. Surprise inflation prints force the ECB's hand: hold and lose credibility, or hike and choke growth. Either path widens the transatlantic economic cost of a war European governments didn't vote for.