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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8931

20 April 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/ecb/board
Mr Bin Smaghi wants to guarantee price stability and reduce public deficits of euro zone whilst giving citizens confidence - Parliamentary committee gets behind him

Brussels, 19/04/2005 (Agence Europe) - Lorenzo Bini Smaghi presented the European Parliament with his vision of the role and mission of the European Central Bank on Tuesday, which is in line with the post he is getting ready to take up. Before the MEPs give their opinion in plenary in May, the committee on economic and monetary affairs approved his nomination to the board of the European Central Bank by 16 votes in favour, 2 against (Ms Wagenknecht, GUE, Germany and Ms Hassi, Greens,...

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