If we leave it to others to decide, we risk losing what we value most: the ability to shape our destiny. Thank you for your attention. 1. Thank you to Jean Francois Jamet, Laurent Abraham, Jacopo Cimadomo, Ettore Dorrucci, Maximilian Freier, and Agnieszka Trzcinska for their contributions. 2.
See Sandbu, M. (2022), “The investment drought of the past two decades is catching up with us”, Financial Times, 20 July. 3. See Bańkowski, K., Bouabdallah, O., Domingues Semeano, J., Dorrucci, E., Freier, M., Jacquinot, P., Modery, W., Rodríguez-Vives, M., Valenta, V. and Zorell, N. (2022), “The economic impact of Next Generation EU: a European perspective”, Occasional Paper Series, No 291, ECB, April. 4.