Sabine Lautenschläger: The test of progress – Europe, the euro and the future Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, at the Übersee-Club Hamburg, Hamburg, 24 January 2017.
* * * “The eurosceptic genie is out of bottle and won’t be put back”, said Nigel Farage on 23 June 2016, while the British were still voting on whether they wanted to remain part of a united Europe. The majority didn’t want to, as we now know. But the eurosceptic genie is not only haunting the people of Britain.