In the US, research on real-time issues owes much to the efforts of Dean Croushore and Tom Stark from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia who developed a comprehensive real-time data set for the US economy.
This suggestion was made with reference to the greater liquidity that such a procedure would create for the euro-denominated government bond market and the savings in borrowing costs it would allow. You will be hardly surprised that I do not agree with this proposal.