I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.