The final work deals with the role of the ECB in the crisis. The ECB is the embodiment of modern central banking, and the predominant goal of monetary policy is price stability. At the time of the crisis, the ECB's intervention to support countries in crisis was gradually increasing. Provisions relating to the ECB's competences and monetary policy in the EU Treaties functioned well during the first decade of the euro's existence. But the provisions were appropriate for good economic times, and with the advent of the financial crisis that escalated in 2010, new tools had to be made in the midst of the crisis. At the time, there was a need for the ECB to make creative efforts to manage the crisis and guarantee the survival of the currency itself. The ECB's actions following the global crisis have been described as indecisive vis-à-vis other central banks.