Comment: Smaghi calls for fiscal synchronisation

Writing in the Financial Times on September 8, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, a member of the ECB's executive board, called on member states to improve the synchronisation of the their budgets in order to strengthen the economic governance of the Euro area.

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His arguments follow recent calls by politicians in member states for improved dialogue in the Eurozone - thinly veiled demands to give them more say in monetary policy decisions.

Smaghi argued that the current system has ample

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