Furthermore, the President of the Council and a member of the Commission may participate in the meetings of the ECB-Council. This institutional arrangement shall guarantee for a necessary flow of information between the Eurosystem and the political institutions of Europe.
It should not, however, interfere with the independence of the Eurosystem, thus these two representatives have of course no voting right in the decisions of the Governing Council. The Eurosystem’s external communications activities up to now - press conferences, the publication of e.g.