Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.
Christine LagardeI'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.
Christine LagardeWe need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.
Christine LagardeMassive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.
Christine LagardeIf you have an overwhelming majority of one sex over the other, and clearly in our case at the moment - and it has been like this for a long time - it is male over female, you tend to have group thinking. You tend to have common references, combined with competition, combined in this case with testosterone. I'm not suggesting it's a toxic mix, but I'm saying it needs to be tempered and altered and modified and made better by diversity.
Christine Lagarde