The euro area needs to act now to complete Europe’s economic and Monetary Union so as to realise the full benefits of the euro and defeat populism, said Eurogroup President Mário Centeno, at the Brussels Economic Forum. “When our leaders meet in three weeks’ time, here in Brussels, we have a choice to either remain vulnerable to the next crisis and to political or market instability; or to be bold and decide to take the euro more seriously,” he said, in a keynote speech closing the Forum.

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