Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.

Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.