But the other thing that changed in 2022 was inflation in the prices of services. As the economy fully reopened in the spring, pent-up demand for all the services we’d missed over the pandemic started driving up their prices, especially in areas like travel and recreation.
What’s your personal position? I find the arguments in favour of keeping the € note less and less convincing. Among the euro area countries, Germany seems to be against withdrawing the € note as the Germans are used to paying cash. Is that a problem?