They were not in a situation in which key interest rates had reached the lower limit, thereby leaving hardly any room for manoeuvre in terms of interest rates. However, I am sure that they would also have done everything necessary to fulfil the mandate.
Besides, there was also a government bond purchase programme under the former President Jean-Claude Trichet, only it was much smaller than the current one. Critics say that the ECB has gone too far and that, with its ultra-expansionary policy, it has sown the seeds of the next crisis.