The central banking community is an international group of well-connected people. They are by no means always in agreement on policy alternatives. However, the members of the community regularly keep in touch with each other, as they like to know what their peers think. The central banking community also pays close attention to the views of leading academic economists on current monetary policy issues.
Throughout the crisis citizens in some parts of the euro area have been calling on the ECB to do more, while elsewhere we have been called to do less. This is inevitable in a monetary union.