Peter Praet: Ensuring price stability Remarks by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Belgian Financial Forum colloquium on "The low interest rate environment", Brussels, 4 May 2017. * * * Accompanying slides. I would like to thank Leopold von Thadden for his contribution to this speech.
*  *  *  I am pleased to be invited to discuss some of the important issues concerning international trade and the attendant implications for the U.S. economy and the world economy more generally. In doing so, I want to emphasize that I speak for myself and not necessarily for the Federal Reserve.