It is a great pleasure for me to be...

It is a great pleasure for me to be here and I thank you, Robert Isaak, for that astonishing introduction; it was very interesting. I am of course going to talk about the euro yet by way of preface, I will reckon you about some of my late journeys.

Two weeks ago I was in Spain at the Euro Forum meeting for consultation in the El Escorial Palace outside Madrid, the splendid mausoleum/palace/monastery built by way of Philip II of Spain to celebrate the occasion of his victory in the Battle of San Quentin forward St. Laurence's Day in 1557 This was a discourse ...