In terms of the medians of the Policy Board members' forecasts in the January 2021 Outlook Report,  3  The number of suspensions and discontinuations of businesses should be interpreted with some latitude since there are several statistics with different survey subjects and methods, and there are large fluctuations in the results.
Comments on other activities of the Eurosystem  As far as the other activities of the Eurosystem are concerned, during 2000, the Eurosystem continued to devote great attention to the issue of how to improve cross-border retail payment services within the euro area.