The position of EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs could be combined with the office of Euro Group chairman. That job would be a great challenge for anyone who assumed it. On the one hand, he would have to make proposals. On the other hand, he would have to negotiate compromises with his European counterparts.

Now people are criticizing Europe, the European Commission, Juncker and the whole lot because the distribution of refugees didn't succeed immediately. But you also have to recognize that close to 20,000 refugees have already been redistributed. There are only a few member states that do not want to take part.

I like Macron a lot and I very much welcome him - particularly the fact that he made Europe one of the main topics of the election debate.

You can't deepen the European Union against the wishes of the European countries.

The good thing about the European Union is that the joint project ultimately benefits all Member States and not just a few.

Between now and then, after 43 years of European marriage, the whole body of legislation will therefore have to be disentangled. That entails a whole range of specific and very complex questions: what will be the future legal status of the millions of EU citizens in the UK and the millions of Britons on the continent?

Those who are saying that Mario Draghi is in the camp of those trying to push Greece outside the Euroarea, are wrong.