Echoing former ECB President Mario Draghi’s famous statement in 2012 to calm financial markets, euro area finance ministers promised, on Monday 16 March at the end of their videoconference (see EUROPE B12447A4), to do “whatever it takes and more” to support the economic players paralysed by the coronavirus pandemic and help them to restart their activity as soon as possible once the crisis has passed.
“We will protect our citizens and our currency. Come what may and with everything...