These materials range from offerings for kindergartens and primary schools – for instance, play and counting money or the “Kinderfunkkolleg”, a money-themed course of audio lectures for children, which we developed in cooperation with the Frankfurt-based TV and radio 4/7  BIS central bankers' speeches  broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk.
[9] It is sometimes argued that our monetary policy discourages governments from undertaking the necessary reforms. For one thing, this idea is belied by the facts: were these reforms carried out when interest rates were higher? Also, it fundamentally conflicts with the set-up of the euro area, which gives the ECB a narrow mandate focused on price stability.