You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

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

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

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

I have always considered it to be a minor miracle that after the war, people in Europe's border regions were able to forget everything and, in accordance with the slogan "Never Again War," develop a program that still works today.

I'm not suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I would say that I have a balanced state of mind.