In a speech on 5 April 2016 Christine Lagarde called for a "three-pronged approach" to secure durable growth, with coordinated efforts in the areas of structural reforms as well as in fiscal and monetary policy.

Bundesbank Executive Board member Joachim Wuermeling is calling for the financial centres of the European Union to come together to work as a single networked financial platform. At present, their overall potential is spread across the entire continent, he writes in an oped for the Handelsblatt. In his view, a digital financial market union "would be a highly ambitious new project that would be worth the effort to make it work".

Dr. Hans Georg Fabritius, Mitglied des Vorstandes der Deutschen Bundesbank, Empfang anlässlich der 12. Euro Finance Week

Speaking on the sidelines of the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann voiced his opposition to proposals for economic policy measures to counteract German current account surpluses. It would be "absurd", Weidmann said, to discuss measures aimed at artificially weakening German competitiveness.