Financing a green and digital recovery- Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the Brussels Economic Forum 2021
Tuesday 29 June 2021 ECB Visit source websiteThank you for inviting me to speak to you today.
The economist Rudi Dornbusch once said that “in economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.”
That describes the situation we face today very well. The pandemic has accelerated pre-existing trends at a pace we could never have imagined. There are possibilities for our economy in 2022 which seemed at least a decade away in 2019.