All member countries have a common interest in the well being of our union and its currency. We all share the guilt related to the failure of governance in the preventive arm of the Stability Pact. We ourselves, have never tried to hamper the functioning of the Pact and, when caught at fault, we have abided by the rules.
The National Financial Inclusion Taskforce, ladies and gentlemen, is a national committee that was set up in 2010 and represents stakeholders from the public and private sector, the donor agencies, Micro Finance Institutions and NGOs, with the goal of extending financial services to 150,000 unbanked people by the year 2014.