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Klaas Knot: Gloom and doom on Europe's future is overblown
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Klaas Knot: Gloom and doom on Europe's future is overblown

by Luca Léry Moffat

Editor's note: Klaas Knot and Olaf Sleijpen visited Ukraine as part of a Dutch delegation invited by the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pishnyy. The gloom and doom on Europe's future is overblown, says the frontrunner to succeed Christine Lagarde as head of the European Central Bank — but still, says Klaas Knot, the continent has unfinished business if it wants to reach its potential. Speaking in Kyiv at the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in a double interview with the curren

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