Sabine Lautenschläger: Europe - past, present and future Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at a meeting with students at Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, 14 May 2018. * * * It’s always nice to visit universities.
They are special places, meant for the free exchange of ideas – places where bold thinking is encouraged and the orthodoxy challenged. So today I’m going to step back from the technical aspects of my day-to-day work. I’m going to take some time to reflect instead on the big picture. I will first talk about some of the EU’s historical milestones.