As part of an international organisation you are in a prime position to reach beyond your national boundaries, to become citizens of the world and draw on your immense human resources in making life a little brighter for all our people.
during the period of low interest rates, the approval ratings have not changed significantly. The strong downturn came in 2008 as a result of the financial crisis. That is when trust plummeted. The reasons were, above all, economic. Before 2008 we, and most economists, predicted that the euro area would carry on growing continuously.