Lucas Papademos: Tackling the financial crisis – policies for stability and recovery Speech by Mr Lucas Papademos, Vice President of the European Central Bank, at the Annual Dinner of the Society of Business Economists, London, 11 February 2009. * I.
*  *  Introduction  When I accepted your kind invitation to address the Annual Dinner of the Society of Business Economists – for which I thank you – I knew I would be coming to the City of London at a time when the general economic sentiment, especially in the financial markets and the banking sector, might be matching the weather conditions: not exactly sunny and occasionally frosty.