It was in the first weeks after the establishment of the ECB in June 1998 that I received a letter by the late Nobel Prize laureate Milton Friedman, who congratulated me on my appointment as member of the Executive Board – which he called “an impossible job.”
Dans les premières semaines de la mise en place de la BCE en juin 1998, j’ai reçu une lettre de feu le prix Nobel Milton Friedman me félicitant de ma nomination en tant que membre du conseil de direction – ce qu’il appelait “un boulot impossible.”