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

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

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

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,

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

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