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François Villeroy de Galhau French Central Bank Governor
Le pilier monétaire existe et il est solide, la BCE fait son travail. Ce qui manque terriblement est le second pilier, une meilleure coordination des politiques économiques. C'est pourquoi je propose la nomination d'un ministre des Finances européen. Depuis 2011, l'absence de gouvernance a coûté 2 à 5 points de PIB à l'eurozone et donc des millions d'emplois
Vítor Constâncio Vice President of the European Central Bank
L’idée de désigner un ministre des finances est très récente et probablement, liée au fait qu’il faut établir de telles fonctions au niveau central de la zone euro de manière à avoir quelqu’un qui soit responsable de la gestion des nouvelles tâches et de la stabilisation de l’Union monétaire.
Emmanuel Macron French President
[We need] deeper integration between eurozone states, including a real eurozone budget [and a] a permanent finance minister who leads this executive. This is a democratic responsibility on the eurozone level, and as such it requires maximum ambition
Jean-Claude Juncker President of the @EU_Commission
The European Union [note: not only the Eurozone] should have a minister of economy and finance. Such a minister should also be the chairman of all euro zone finance ministers and be accountable to the European Parliament.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem Former Dutch Finance Minister and former President of the Eurogroup
Quite a large number of ministers feel that to complement our toolkit with a fiscal capacity as a stabilization tool would be useful
Angela Merkel German Chancellor
The new economics and finance minister role could provide greater coherence to economic policy across the bloc
Reza Moghadam Economist and Vice-chairman for sovereigns and official institutions at Morgan Stanley
Macron is right - the Eurozone needs a finance minister. [...] it focuses on the essential: a collective action mechanism for managing and stabilising economies in crisis. It also does so without the need for EU Treaty changesDisagree:
