Continue the long-running debate within the European Union in search of an identity and a common political project. Since its establishment onwards, including hesitations, setbacks and good news, the path still seems rather long and tortuous. In the midst of today's economic crisis, one of the bodies in member countries have become even more important: the European Central Bank (ECB). Often in the news, the ECB was born June 1, 1998, is headquartered in Frankfurt, and emits about 8% of the total European currency. It acts mainly on the 15 countries that are part of European economic policy, but it can also make investments or loans to countries not members. 1998 to 2003 chaired by Wim Duisenberg, is now administered French economist Jean-Claude Trichet. The main objective of the Central Bank is to control the price level and inflation through three main instruments: open market operations, liquidity management, and the ability to change the coeficente reserves of national banks that compose it. The funding organization is in fact the payments by national banks that are part of it, and their volume is in turn determined by the ratio of the country with the GDP and the population community. As an official from the European Parliament, the ECB may claim some independence from politics, and said dedicated to the achievement of purely economic goals. Particularly careful to control the price level, the Central Bank shows little interest in such issues as the level disoccupazionale, or quality of life of the European population. Its independence, in a context in which the creation of a common political project still seems a mirage, in addition to putting revealed a progressive detachment from the ECB's requirements and those of Europeans, it shows a very clear choice by the members of the Union: politics and economics separate leaving white paper to it. The ECB and its independence, show that European states are still conceive as an economic aggregate and not as a complex political product. Decouple politics from economics, and consider the power of numbers always higher than that of words, it means not really believe in the European project, and instead to conceive the union of the old continent as an economic market in which privileged protect themselves that a new global policy challenge that can set a new world order. The EU, its constitution forward, has never called into question an economic model different from liberalism, which is why it was considered a wise choice to ensure the independence of the Central Bank. Without some rare exceptions, none of the political forces he rowed to a radical rethinking of the economy, and it seemed superfluous to create a bridge between ideas and money. Now that the free market instead shows even the most orthodox its limitations, there are many who rail against the not-I do not feel-I do not speak of the Central Bank. Waiting to see how and whether U.S. policy is changing, the EU needs to show adoption of new flexible ways, that is capable of leaving its old "Certainties" to get involved in radical innovation projects, and possibly reinstate the concept of ethics in the economy. And 'This is probably the way that would ensure a brighter future for all, that of the riumanizzare dehumanized. Obviously you can not expect that within a few months, these changes are lightning fast, but it would be good start to creak the old forts, and would be good if the European Central Bank also began to do so, perhaps listening to the voices until now obscured by ticking calculators.
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