Between 2000 and 2005 the annual flow of securitized loans has increased from 0.6 to 2.0 per cent of GDP; in the same period it has risen from 2.1 to 8.2 per cent in the United Kingdom and from 4.9 to 14.0 per cent in the United States (Fig. 3). Fig.
It is also a formidable chance and opportunity for Europe, not the least in the economic field. Let us seize this chance and this opportunity in a highly responsible and professional manner in the Western part of Europe as well as in the Central and Eastern part of it.