05/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The President of the Eurogroup, the Belgian Finance Minister, Didier Reynders, severely criticised the influence of the Bundesbank over the European Central Bank. In an interview published on Monday by the International Herald Tribune, he refers to the comments by the members of the German central bank and its President Ernst Welteke which often precede those of the ECB. "We must make an effort to convince Germany that we have a central bank in Germany, but that it is not a German central bank any more," he stated, while recalling that the only voice of the ECB is that of Wim Duisenberg. On the eve of the meeting of G7 Finance Ministers, which will take place in Sicily, Mr Reynders also launched a call for a better coordination and a real-time exchange of information between the three major world economies: United states, Europe and Japan.