Europe’s finance ministers portray the ECB as closed to dialogue. When testifying before the EU Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, Luxembourg prime minister and Euro-group chairman Jean-Claude Juncker said there should be “open and frank” talks between the euro-group ministers and the ECB—and French finance minister Dominique de Villepin said the same thing.
为了破坏ECB的独立性，欧洲的财政部长们正在寻求在银行的决定权上拥有更大的发言权。卢森堡首相兼欧元集团主席让·克洛德·容克在欧盟议会的经济及货币事务委员会召开前表示，欧元区的财长们应该在对ECB表达他们的观点时态度更强硬。他呼吁欧元集团的部长们和ECB之间应当展开“开放坦率的”谈话。