The President of the European Central Bank (ECB) called for a new European economic policy mix with a strong focus on investment in a first expected speech in Frankfurt on Friday 22 November.
“Investment is a particularly important part of the response to today’s challenges, because it is both today’s demand and tomorrow’s supply”, she said.
Noting that public investment in the euro area was still at a lower level than in the pre-financial crisis period of 2008, she saw investment...