The median age of all ECB Governing Council members amounts to 55.1 years. 5  6  c.f. Chapter 1 (“The World of Security”, ger. “Die Welt der Sicherheit”) in Zweig (1942). 3  On the one hand, the aggression against Ukraine pushed geopolitics and war back to the top of the European policy agenda.
Here, I could not imagine a more suitable forum to discuss the economic implications of these radical changes in a post-pandemic world than our high-level policy panel. I am proud and very happy to welcome Tobias Adrian, Andrew Bailey, Claudio Borio and Joachim Nagel this afternoon.