As an example, I would like to mention the Eurosystem’s contribution to the European Commission’s consultation on the priorities for financial services policy over the next five years.7 In this contribution, the Eurosystem expresses its support to the key policy orientations of the Green Paper which focuses  3  See Article 105 (1) of the Treaty.
But today I think it is important to see independence in a wider context: central banks are macroeconomic policy institutions; they have to follow the policy goals embodied in their democratically given mandate. That means they not only need to be independent from short-term political influences, but they also have to be independent from all other sorts of special interests.