9. Recognises that major central banks such as the ECB and the US Federal Reserve warned against underestimating the risks to the economy before either the IT-bubble burst in 2000/2001 or the sub-prime crisis in 20
07; notes that the financial markets failed effectively to respond to those warnings; asks the ECB, therefore, to analyse that response and suggest how to improve the correlation between such forward-looking warnings and market reactions; calls on the ECB, in the light of recent financial turmoil, to analyse and evaluate the aftermath of the financial crisis and examine whether it has sufficient instruments for handling a cr
...[+++]oss-border European financial crisis, and which powers it needs in order to improve macro-prudential supervision in the euro area;