Jean-Claude Trichet: A stability-oriented monetary policy as a necessary condition for long term growth Speech by Mr Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, at the UNICE Competitiveness Day, Brussels, 9 December 2004.
In their journeys to the East Indies numerous Dutch traders saw the western and northern coastlines of the continent and some came ashore. But the conditions were not hospitable and, finding nothing in the way of commodities that they could exchange for value at home, they left.