To facilitate arrears resolution between SME borrowers and their lenders we have brought forward the review of two specific provisions of the Code of Conduct for Business Lending to Small and Medium Enterprises to examine how they are operating in practice.
It has not always been easy to draw the appropriate line between preserving the diversity of national traditions, cultures and institutional arrangements, which illustrate the richness of Europe, and being European in the definition of the policy missions and pursuing the public interest. Tommaso was a central banker by profession, but he was also an advocate of a united Europe by deep personal conviction.