Wolfgang Schauble
Wolfgang Schauble
Wolfgang Schäubleis a German politician of the Christian Democratic Unionwho has served as Germany's Federal Minister of Finance in the second and third Merkel cabinets since 2009...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 September 1942
CountryGermany
reliability
Reliability is the precondition for trust.
euro
The presidency of the Euro group is an interesting and important task.
good
Mr. Geithner is an excellent minister. We have a good personal relationship.
prepared public run willing
If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.
bankruptcy government
I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.
along created grown laborious people possible ready since union willing
This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.
private
My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.
clearly
Europe should speak more effectively and clearly with one voice in the world.
change crisis foster towards
Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.
allow bankruptcy cannot euro second state
We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.
account declining deficits exporting portugal several spain
There are several silver linings on the horizon. The current account deficits in Spain and Portugal are declining because they have become more competitive and they're exporting more.
good imagined politician year
I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.
europe event huge interest national people setting spark
If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in people from Lisbon to Helsinki, just like national elections. And it would create a completely different political setting in Europe.
bothers colleagues euro hope move talk wheelchair
As a wheelchair user, you can't move about freely. That's the only thing that bothers me a little. When I'm in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.