This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.