Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

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

I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing.

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.

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.

Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.