Whatever the internal tensions or the personal desire to return to normal monetary policy, "what prevails over everything else is our determination to purse the mandate under which this institution was created", namely to keep inflation close to, but below, 2%, said the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, who bowed out on Thursday 24 October in Frankfurt after eight years at the head of the monetary institute.
In the presence of Christine Lagarde of France, who will...