Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

I'm not deaf and the Commission isn't operating in a parallel world of legal texts.

Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.