We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.

There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.

I'm always quite amazed that people in Europe become unnerved when two institutions or two people have different views.

I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

I assumed office to bring the EU to a point from which there is no going back. Instead, I am having to unwind the EU to a certain extent.

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.