If our dreams are to be, then as Tagore has declared: We have no time to lose, and having no time we must  BIS central bankers’ speeches  5  Scramble for our chances. We are too poor to be late… Or as Ovid remarked, for those who still have some Latin: Tempus edax rerum.
Finally, to be decorated on 9 May - the anniversary of the declaration by Robert Schuman which marked the start of the European integration process - is of particular symbolic value for me. As you are aware, 9 May is celebrated in particular by the European institutions.