* * * It is my pleasure to welcome you to the second annual conference of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). The conference coincides with the tenth anniversary of the start of the global financial crisis in the summer of 2007. The crisis shook the European Union to the core, and required substantial policy actions to stabilise the economy and the financial system.
Since the Treaty does not foresee anything on exit, this is not a matter for the ECB to decide.