John Hurley: Euro area monetary policy and EU enlargement Speech by Mr John Hurley, Governor of the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland, to ACI Ireland, Dublin, 22 March 2004. *  *  *  First, let me say how pleased I am to have the opportunity to share some thoughts with you this evening.
I would like to begin by saying a little about the euro area monetary policy framework, which was reviewed and clarified last year, before going to outline how monetary policy in the euro area has been conducted in the first five years of EMU.