Anna Maria Tarantola: Financial literacy Concluding Remarks by Ms Anna Maria Tarantola, Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy, at the OECD-Bank of Italy Symposium On Financial Literacy, Rome, 9 June 2010, Session: 17:30–18:00. *  *  *  Today more than ever, citizens need to be financially aware, to know the characteristics and risks of financial products, to choose correctly.
Its inception has been, at the same time, a powerful symbol of the will of the European countries to pursue actively their strategic road towards unification. We were eleven countries when we started the euro on 1 January 1999. We will be seventeen on 1 January 2011.