No need for more transparency at ECB says Noyer
"We feel that including the balance of votes is not very helpful. Why? We feel it would run the risk (of blurring) the idea that we have a collegiate responsibility," Noyer told the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.
Publishing results of votes, but without the names of the people concerned, might be possible in the future he said, but warned that such greater transparency could lead analysts to look for evidence that ECB members act in a national interest.
"We could of course publish balance of votes in anonymity...I personally don't exclude that at some point in the future it might be appropriate.
"For the time being I have the feeling it would seem to foster this whole game among journalists and market participants to know who said what and then immediately afterwards we would have the risk that the decisions on monetary policy would be analysed with the background of national preferences which would be very detrimental to the idea that we are all concentrating on the interested of the euro area.
"We feel that for the time being at least there is no need to depart from what we have said before."
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