Yahya Shunnar
Governor of the Palestinian Monetary Authority
We're more resilient now as Europeans compared to what we were in 2022. After Russia invaded Ukraine, we started making significant energy investments. We need to make more of those investments.
Kyriakos Pierrakakis President, Eurogroup; Minister of Finance and Economy, Greece
Who would have imagined 15 years ago that out of the 27 member states of Europe, you have five with a headline surplus—four of them are the program countries that used to be in an IMF bailout program.
Kyriakos Pierrakakis President, Eurogroup; Minister of Finance and Economy, Greece
The core lesson is that when you design policy, you also need to have—apart from economists or the IMF... people who understand technology in the room too. Because it makes policy more targeted and more applicable in the daily lives of citizens.
Kyriakos Pierrakakis President, Eurogroup; Minister of Finance and Economy, Greece