I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

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.

The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.

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

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.