B: You have said that this Europe of ours is being dominated by Germany. Do you think that the creation of Eurobonds guaranteed by the BCE could make Europe more equitable and economically stable?

F: „I don’t believe that the European Union was a plan that was set up by Germany in order to dominate Europe. I don’t believe that the Germans want that, but what has happened since the crisis hit in 2008 is largely due to the lack of legitimacy of Van Rompuy and Brussels. This vacuum has been filled by an individual who is arguably the most capable leader of any European Country, namely Angela Merkel. The Germans are the treasurers and now they are making the decisions, so we are now living in a Europe that is dominated by Germany, which is absolutely bizarre since the thinking in the 1950s was that by tying Germany into a tighter Union, that Country would no longer be the dominant regional power.