Eurozone governments need to take the lead in tackling the bloc’s energy inflation, the European Central Bank’s rate-setters said at their most recent meeting.

The account of the governing council’s meeting on September 7 and 8 showed its members agreed that governments needed to deal with the energy crisis. It also showed that the ECB’s chief economist Philip Lane backed the successful proposal to raise rates by 75 basis points, against some members’ opposition.

“It was widely underlined that