With his calm manner, he established people’s basic trust in the euro, … We will remember his personality and what he achieved.

It’s a different case when the economy does not go well, that you can’t change.

Germany has signaled it is ready to move but that does not change our basic view

I do not see any consequences for the euro, … Denmark is only 2.7 percent of gross domestic product in the euro zone – that is why the markets have taken it calmly.

We see that the inflation rate is going down, so that there is a chance that tax reform with its enormous relief in the second half of the year will begin to work,

I do not see any consequences for the euro. Denmark is only 2.7 percent of gross domestic product in the euro zone – that is why the markets have taken it calmly.

It’s a shame it happened like this, but we have to respect it.

Anyone who wants to cut taxes on energy as an answer to higher oil prices has already lost, … You would be opening your national budget to OPEC and the oil industry.

That would be that and it would bring in a lot of money,

I had talks with my American colleague, (Treasury Secretary) John Snow, which created the basis on which the forgiveness of Iraqi debt can be settled mutually in the Paris Club.

We will have a very tough debate in the second half of 2002,

Everything I proposed and much more still will be done now,

We have at the moment this year growth of under one percent,

Within this framework, the necessary decisions can now be taken in the Paris Club.

We have to draw up new estimates but I think we will reach three-quarter percent. Next year we will clearly come in below the two to two-and-a-quarter percent we had assumed, it will be somewhere...