BERLIN, April 29 (Reuters) - The European committee in Germany's parliament has invited European Central Bank President Mario Draghi for talks, the committee's head told Reuters on Friday.
"The invitation has been made," said Gunther Krichbaum, the committee's head and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU). He added that it was "an invitation, not a summons".
German conservatives have sharply criticised the bank's loose monetary policy in recent weeks and on Wednesday Bild newspaper reported that Draghi was ready to appear at Germany's Bundestag lower house of parliament to defend the bank's policies.
It is unusual for the ECB president to answer to a national parliament of a euro zone country. The last time he did so in Germany was in 2012.
(Reporting by Matthias Sobolewski and Reinhard Becker; Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Joseph Nasr)