The past two years, which have also been the start of your term of office, have been challenging: on top of the public health crisis came the war in Ukraine and, in turn, the runaway inflation of recent months. What have they been like for you? My feeling when I look back on these past few months is particularly one of always being on the lookout, always on alert. Yet when I took office in the autumn of 2019, my predecessor Mario Draghi had told me: “it will be relatively calm; we have restarted the asset purchase programme at a monthly pace of €20 billion and that should allow us to continue to fulfil our price ... (full story)