‒  Finally, at a deeper level, we do not know how and how much this pandemic will end up shaping our behaviour, consumption patterns, and the allocation of potentially higher precautionary savings. We ask ourselves what new needs will emerge and what social mores will be definitively left behind.
I could even underline that the German national inflation rate with the euro has been significantly lower than the average in the euro area and, therefore, much lower than at the time of the D-Mark: 1.5% per year, on average from 1999 to 2009.