Rebuke for UK chancellors ECB reform calls

UK - Gordon Brown has come under criticism from Ernst Welteke, who was speaking yesterday (29 May), for urging the ECB to improve its openness after just three years of operation.

Ernst Welteke, President of the Bundesbank and a member of the ECB's governing council, has rebuffed the UK chancellor's call for greater openness on the part of the ECB".

Last week the Financial Times reported that Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer for the UK Labour government, has called for reform to the

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