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In a speech held in Frankfurt, Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, criticised the ultra-accommodative monetary policy across the world, claiming that it would not sustainably achieve higher growth and that it could also have tremendous consequences for financial stability. "The sooner we get out, the better," he said.

The objective of the monetary policy decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB is to ensure price stability – the main aim of the Eurosystem’s monetary policy. The ECB Governing Council, on which the president of the Bundesbank has a seat and a voice as an independent representative of Germany, traditionally takes these decisions at its first meeting of the month.

"Nur stabiles Geld ist gutes Geld."

Von März bis November 2015 unterzog die Bankenaufsicht der EZB neun Banken einem CA. Damit knüpfte sie an das 2014 durchgeführte CA an, bei dem sie in Vorbereitung auf die Übernahme der direkten Aufsicht über die größten Bankengruppen innerhalb des Einheitlichen Aufsichtsmechanismus (Single Supervisory Mechanism – SSM) 130 Banken beurteilt hatte.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has voiced concerns over the continued ultra-loose monetary policy in the Eurosystem. The longer policy remains highly accommodative, the more the attendant risks and side-effects will come into play, he told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. The key to resolving the euro-area crisis, he said, lies with politicians, not with central banks.