FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank rolled out Thursday an unprecedented package of measures, including negative interest rates, in its fight to head off the spectre of deflation in the euro area.

ECB chief Mario Draghi insisted that the 18 countries that share the euro are not actually on the brink of deflation, a potentially crippling downward spiral of falling prices.

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