Furthermore, the ECB has also had the opportunity to welcome delegations of members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs to its premises in Frankfurt. The ECB attaches great importance to these visits and will be pleased to continue to host such events.
However, since these visits to the ECB are of a more informal nature, it goes without saying that they have to be considered as an additional tool for communication between the two institutions and cannot be seen as a substitute for regular public hearings at the European Parliament.