The operation mode was first used on 9 August 2007, then again before year end 2007 and has become the standard procedure for all tender operations from mid-September 2008 onwards. Figure 2 shows how allotted amounts increased in autumn 2008 as the Eurosystem accommodated the risen liquidity demand of the banking sector. 2.2.2.
The ideal that Altiero Spinelli, Robert Schuman and many others talked about in the 1940s and 1950s. The European ideal that is ultimately about togetherness. That is the golden thread – perhaps a goldand-blue thread – that binds us.