Lucas Papademos: Financial integration in Europe – March 2007 Introductory remarks by Mr Lucas Papademos, Vice President of the European Central Bank, at the ECB press conference on the occasion of the first publication of the report, Frankfurt am Main, 28 March 2007. * I.
*  *  Introduction  On behalf of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), I would like to welcome you to this press conference on the occasion of the publication by the ECB of a new yearly report, entitled “Financial Integration in Europe”.