Christine Lagarde: Financing a green and digital recovery Speech by Ms Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, at the Brussels Economic Forum 2021, Frankfurt am Main, 29 June 2021. * * * Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today.
The economist Rudi Dornbusch once said that “in economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.” That describes the situation we face today very well. The pandemic has accelerated pre-existing trends at a pace we could never have imagined.