Christine Lagarde: The future of the euro area economy Sspeech by Ms Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, at the Frankfurt European Banking Congress, Frankfurt am Main, 22 November 2019. * * * It is a pleasure to be speaking here this morning at the European Banking Congress.
This is my first opportunity to meet the mayor and Frankfurt’s financial community – and I am sure it will be the first of many. T.S. Eliot said that “every moment is a fresh beginning” and it certainly feels that way for me today. But in many respects it feels that way for Europe, too.