European Central Bank
Speech parts
1. European Central Bank - Noun
2. European Central Bank - Proper noun
Meaning
the central bank of those members of the European Union who share a common currency
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We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.
The most serious criticism of EMU is that by abandoning exchange rate adjustments it transfers to the labor market the task of adjusting for competitiveness and relative prices... losses in output and employment (and pressure on the European central bank to inflate) will predominate.
The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
The European Central Bank is Europe's equivalent of the Federal Reserve
According to the author, “the single market, the joint currency, and the European Central Bank are the only mechanisms that can prevent an economic collapse and enable an eventual recovery in Europe.”
European Central Bank The European Central Bank (Europäische Zentralbank) is one of the world's most important central banks.