While we expect growth to approach 2.5 per cent over the next couple of years, we also see the economy’s potential capacity growing at around an average of 2 per cent. This is why we say that it will take a couple of years for us to close our excess capacity gap and get inflation back to near our 2 per cent target.
Let me emphasize that in this process of adopting the euro, quality must not be compromised for the sake of speed! Let me conclude by taking a step back, in order to get a broader view of what all this and also this conference are about.