{"id":2360,"date":"2026-01-28T16:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:38:44","slug":"i-raised-press-based-questions-as-elderson-seeks-top-ecb-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/i-raised-press-based-questions-as-elderson-seeks-top-ecb-post\/","title":{"rendered":"I RAISED PRESS-BASED QUESTIONS AS ELDERSON SEEKS TOP ECB POST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During today\u2019s hearing of <strong>Frank Elderson<\/strong>, in view of his appointment as <strong>Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank<\/strong>, I raised serious concerns about the politicisation of the ECB\u2019s mandate.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent press reports \u2014 including <em>Politico<\/em> \u2014 have portrayed Mr Elderson as closely aligned with a green lobbying agenda and have raised questions about internal pressure, intolerance of dissent, and mandate creep within the ECB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Central bank independence requires discipline, pluralism, and respect for dissent \u2014 especially at the highest level.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During today\u2019s hearing of Frank Elderson, in view of his appointment as Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, I raised serious concerns about the politicisation of the ECB\u2019s mandate. Recent press reports \u2014 including Politico \u2014 have portrayed Mr Elderson as closely aligned with a green lobbying agenda and have raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}