If we Europeans fail to make further progress, or if Europe remains divided between north and south and between east and west, then we will be playing into the hands of those who are trying to divide us and marginalise our actions. Thank you. 345678 2/3  BIS central bankers' speeches  345678 1 See Lebow, R.N.
and R. Kelly (2001), “Thucydides and hegemony: Athens and the United States”, Review of  International Studies, Vol. 27, No 4, pp. 593–609. 2 Many people in the rest of the world may have seen it differently, of course. 3 See europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-in-brief_en. 4 See Pisani-Ferry, J. (2018), “What leadership for tomorrow?”, Introductory note, Les rencontres économiques  d’Aix-en-Provence, 8 July. 5 See Cœuré, B.