The OECD’s periodic surveys have found that at the end of compulsory schooling Italian youngsters rank near the bottom in mathematical achievement, having fallen about a year behind students elsewhere. Perhaps this should come as no surprise, considering the decline in the number of mathematics and physics students in universities. Nor do the results in other disciplines provide much consolation.
We shall work together with the CSDs to implement T2S – for the benefit of the European financial markets. I would now like to congratulate the CSDs that signed the Framework Agreement today. They have demonstrated their willingness to adapt to change.