“We are on the path of recovery, GDP will rise by 4.2% this year and by 4.4% in 2022”. This is the positive balance outlined by the President of the European Union Commission Ursula von der Leyen in her speech at the Brussels Economic Forum: «The numbers are getting better and no one expected this a few months ago. It is not by chance, it is the result of the policies we have undertaken: the vaccination that allowed the states to reopen and the unprecedented economic stimulus ». The digitalization of the economy and the green transition is becoming a reality, according to Von der Leyen, who recalled how the first money from the NRPs will begin to flow into the States as early as July and mentioned some national projects that will be financed. Finally, he mentioned the Sure fund, which has supported nearly 30 million people.
On the health emergency, the president of the European Union Commission added: “Now more than 60% of European adults have received at least one dose, 41% are fully vaccinated. Now we need to help the neighbors. We will be able to turn the page when we are vaccinated ».
On the same wavelength, the president of the ECB, Christine Lagarde, according to whom “in 2022 there are possibilities for the economy that only in 2019 seemed at least a decade away”. Furthermore, Lagarde sees in the innovations reflected in the Next Generation EU operation, with the objectives of the double ecological and digital transition, the opportunity, through green bonds, to create “an effective European capital market”.