You have played a vital role in relaying those expectations and in ensuring that the ECB’s accountability – the necessary counterpart of its independence – was effectively discharged. Moreover, as co-legislators you drafted and adopted the reforms that made it possible to have a stronger Union today.
One of the functions of many central banks (including in Trinidad and Tobago) is to act as banker to governments. One may ask then, shouldn’t a banker provide credit facilities to its client?