In an interview with the French magazine Le Point, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann rejects the idea of dividing the euro area: "The euro is our common currency, and it’s worth fighting for the stability of this currency. I regard this as the task of the Bundesbank and also my own task."

In an interview with the Handelsblatt newspaper, Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret discusses the manipulation of reference rates and possible alternatives to the current benchmarks. “Obviously, it would be best in the long run to establish several robust reference rates which are based as far as possible on actual transactions”.

„The current period of low interest rates must not be allowed to go on forever. Those who are borrowing at present should bear this in mind”, Bundesbankpresident Jens Weidmann advises in an interview with the Bild am Sonntag. “They should judge the limits of what is sustainable using long-term, normal interest rates rather than today’s very low interest rates.”

To make Europe competitive, together – that is the challenge, Jens Weidmann, the Bundesbank President, said at a press conference on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Franco-German Financial and Economic Council. Mr Weidmann added that it would take reforms and a reduction of government debt to do so.

The Deutsche Bundesbank issues €5 banknotes of the second euro banknote series, thus bringing the first denomination of the new “Europa” series into circulation in Germany.

The Bundesbank is holding this year's Bundesbank symposium "Banking supervision in dialogue", on current banking supervision topics on 28 May 2013 at the Marriott Hotel in Frankfurt am Main. Registrations are now being accepted.