This increases the potential for green bonds to lead the ecological transformation. 3 Concluding remarks Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to close my speech with a saying of Singapore’s notable founder Lee Kuan Yew: “Was it planned from the beginning? No!
By the end of the investigation phase in autumn 2023, the ECB's Governing Council will decide, in close consultation with the legislative bodies of the European Union, whether to launch a realisation phase on a digital euro, which would take another three years. If everything goes to plan, the first users could pay with digital euro in autumn 2026.