I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.

Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.