The President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi has made it clear Thursday he was ready to take additional measures to support the economy in the euro area, adding that the downside risks have increased and that the ECB was aware of the increasing difficulties of banks.

As pressure increases on the leaders of the eurozone to make progress on a response to the debt crisis by the European summit of December 9, Mario Draghi, speaking before the European Parliament, called for a "deepening" of the budgetary and fiscal integration.

"To me, what is needed by our economic and fiscal union is a new budget agreement – a fundamental reformulation of fiscal rules, budgetary commitments with each other that the governments of the euro area have been," Has he said.

"We might ask if a new budget agreement would be sufficient to stabilize the markets and if a credible long-term vision can be useful in the short term.

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