In addition, inflation rates declined due to an expansion of production capacity resulting from the participation of emerging economies in the global market economy, and low interest rates continued in the environment of high growth and low inflation. In the process, various excessive activities, both economic and financial, were undertaken and "excesses" were accumulated.
As such but also as a seat of the European institutions, we are following the debate about "our Europe" with great interest and the polls show that people in this spot of Europe are better informed about and more aware of European matters than elsewhere.