(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 31 - "The recent economic shocks would have been even more serious without the stability and integration that the euro has given to our single market" and "the euro and Europe are now inseparable". Thus the president of the ECB Christine Lagarde in a speech on the occasion of the 20 years of the Euro published by the weekly Corriere 7 and by various European media.
"When I think of the euro, I am reminded of the businesses and family businesses that have been successful thanks to the benefits deriving from the euro and the single market", says Lagarde who stresses: "the ECB is the guardian of the euro and we work hard to protect the euro. our single currency ". And it is also the "duty" of the institute "study possible forms of additional payment such as the digital euro ", he adds, looking to the future.
In the speech, space also for personal memories for the president of the ECB who also celebrates her birthday on January 1: "On January 1, 2002 I was in Normandy, went to the ATM and made a bet with friends on the fact that the new banknotes would be released immediately and so it was ".
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