Even the Bank of England hinted in its most recent statement that the rate increase anticipated for 2019 might take place sooner than expected. Of course, the Bank of England stressed that this will depend on the outcome of the Brexit negotiations. One persistent problem of the euro area economy is unemployment. I mentioned just now that euro area unemployment stood at 9.5%.
However, if we look at the wider statistics published by the ECB on unemployment and underemployment, including discouraged workers or workers 1/5  BIS central bankers' speeches  who are not able to work as much as they want, we are rather looking at 18%.