And since this is my last hearing before this plenary as ECB President, let me thank all of you for how this process has been carried out during my mandate, for the valued interactions with you, and the opportunity you have given me to explain the ECB’s policies. Thank you.
1 See Hartmann, P. and Smets, F., “The first 20 years of the European Central Bank: Monetary Policy”, ECB  Working Paper Series No 2219, December 2018. 2 See “The evolution of the ECB’s accountability practices during the crisis”, Economic Bulletin, Issue 5, ECB,  2018.