Let us not only celebrate the winners, but also all the others that have dared to back their entrepreneurial spirit and set up a business. We trust that this event will create the necessary awareness out there of these “mum and dad” type enterprises.
Mr. President, listening to your kind words, I can only repeat what I have already said on many other occasions: I was really only an eyewitness to the process of European monetary integration, a process which more or less started with the Werner Report in 1969 and which culminated on 1 January 2002 with the introduction of the euro banknotes and coins.