Honourable members of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to be back again with this committee for the last hearing of 2015. The ECB’s accountability to you, the European Parliament, is a central counterpart to the ECB’s independence. And transparency is a precondition for your holding us to account. As you are aware, following a public access request, last week we released the diaries of all members of the ECB’s Executive Board ‒ including my own ‒ for the period from August 2014 to end-July 2015. But we will not stop there. Starting next February, we will publish ... (full story)