This is not the first time communications has been a problem for the ECB. On more than one occasion, under both Trichet and former ECB chairman Wim Duisenberg before him, press leaks and the tit-for-tat responses they engender, made the Governing Council sound more like a cacophony of discordant voices than a serious deliberative body.
交流成为问题，对欧洲央行来说，这不是第一次。在特里歇和其前任欧洲央行主席德伊森贝赫（Wim Duisenberg ）治下，都不止一次出现过向新闻界泄露消息的情况，并带来以牙还牙的反应。这让管理委员会听起来更像是个多种杂乱声音构成的不和谐音，而非严肃谨慎的机构。