Central bank Quote by Gerhard Schroder

I think that is a very important milestone in our economic history that the monetary policy is now determined through a committee process where…

— Urjit Patel

Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal…

— Amity Shlaes

I don't understand why the Euro-sceptics think monetary union will lead to a federal Europe. It seems to me that the opposite is the…

— Harry Enfield

I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that…

— Romano Prodi

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same…

— Robert C. Solomon

We need to move forward, from the common currency to the banking union to a common financial policy and, in the middle-term, to a…

— Paolo Gentiloni

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it…

— Janet Yellen

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

— Mario Draghi

There is always the potential for a central bank to engage in discretionary monetary policy and to break the one-to-one link between changes in…

— Steve Hanke

For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed.

— Milton Friedman

We have no intention of leaving the euro. In no way will we experiment with the future of our country.

— Nicos Anastasiades