Our country’s history and surrounding polity has never, until now, traveled this road before. The early years following the 1945 Proclamation of Independence have actually seen democratic life, as the one we see today.
The first of these consultations was dedicated to global imbalances and involved the euro area, the US, Japan, China and Saudi Arabia. We at the ECB welcomed these discussions as a way to foster the implementation of the agreed strategy to address global imbalances.