The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over th…

- Jean-Claude Trichet

I think we have to reflect on a treaty change that would permit more than surveillance, with recommendations and appropriate sanctions. When recomme…

- Jean-Claude Trichet

For a small open economy such as Cyprus, the euro adoption provides protection against international financial turmoil, which often has a disproporti…

- Jean-Claude Trichet

I see that a number of persons might consider it appropriate to take the ECB as a possible scapegoat and I think that is not the case at all.

- Jean-Claude Trichet