Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.