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

When women do better, economies do better.

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

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.

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.

Diversity in and of itself is a strong positive.