I would like to begin by welcoming everyone to this conference on the economics of mobile money and to welcome especially all those who have made the effort to come here from abroad to share with us your experience and expertise.
Looking back, it is a pity that it has taken a crisis for everybody to realise this. Looking ahead, I think that everybody now understands. Let me close my remarks this morning – which I repeat have no bearing on current monetary policy matters – by recalling that in Economic and Monetary Union we share a common destiny. Wir teilen ein gemeinsames Schicksal.