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Interviews by the members of the Executive Board

Here you find interviews by the members of the Executive Board.

"It's worth fighting for"

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank – Le Point 24 May 2013.

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"Anything but a petty crime"

Interview Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank Handelsblatt, 21 May 2013

The Handelsblatt newspaper interviews Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret on the subject of reference rates.

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“No one should rely on low interest rates“

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank – Bild am Sonntag, 19 May 2013

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Germany shows: reforms pay off

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank – Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 9 May 2013

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“Aided states should contribute, too”

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 April 2013

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We need time to solve the crisis

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank – Wall Street Journal, 18 April 2013

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“I have closed a number of banks”

Interview with Sabine Lautenschläger published in the newspaper Die Welt on 2013-04-15
Bundesbank Deputy President Sabine Lautenschläger on lessons learned from the Cyprus crisis, the ECB’s growing power and the end of excessive burdens on taxpayers.

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Liability ranking to protect taxpayers

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank – Deutschlandfunk, 7 April 2013
The President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, speaks out in favour of a European resolution regime that the European Commission is currently working on. The objective: having a liability ranking which protects taxpayers.

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"Don’t underestimate the SNB"

Interview with Joachim Nagel, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank - Handelszeitung, 21 March 2013
Bundesbank Executive Board member Joachim Nagel talks about the euro crisis, withdrawing the assistance measures, and why Switzerland doesn’t need to worry.

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That would be potentially incendiary.

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank – FOCUS, 18 March 2013
The President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, regards higher inflation as the wrong way to reduce government debt, warns Italy against renewed foot dragging – and refuses to be a troubleshooter for politicians. 

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“Competitive devaluations have no winners”

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank – FAZ.NET, 18 February 2013

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Bankers’ salaries must be capped

Interview with Sabine Lautenschläger published in the newspaper Handelsblatt on 2013-02-05
The excessive salaries of many bankers are threatening the cohesion of society, warns Sabine Lautenschläger, Deputy President of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

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"We need to remain vigilant"

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank with the weekly newspaper Die Zeit published on 2013-01-31.

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Credible threat

Interview conducted on 6 December 2012 with Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, published in WirtschaftsWoche on 2013-01-28.

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Bundesbank President: Reform efforts must not stop

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank with the newspapers Helsingin Sanomat (Finland) und Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) published on 2013-01-20 and respectively 2013-01-21

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"I'm under fire"

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank with the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, published on 2012-12-30

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"There is light at the end of the tunnel"

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank with the newspaper WirtschaftsWoche, published on 2012-12-22

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Interview Estado de São Paulo

Interview conducted on 2012-12-06 with Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, and published in Estado de São Paulo on 2012-12-07

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Gold reserves stored securely

In an interview with the DPA press agency, Executive Board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele explains why he has no doubts about the security of German gold and provides information on how the Bundesbank’s gold reserves are distributed across the storage sites in Frankfurt, New York, London and Paris.

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"Let’s move forward decisively and with commitment"

Interview with Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, with Emerging Markets on 13 October 2012
On the sidelines of the IMF autumn meeting in Tokyo, Andreas Dombret talks to Emerging Markets about the proposed European banking union.

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"There is no point in trying to dress up the facts"

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank with the newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, published on 2012-09-26
In an interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Bundesbank President Dr Jens Weidmann explains why he was the only member of the ECB Governing Council to vote against the new bond purchase programme. He raises his concerns about monetary policy taking on fiscal tasks and draws conclusions for his own position.

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“The central banks are not omnipotent”

Interview with Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, with the magazine Der Spiegel, published on 2012-08-27
In an interview with Der Spiegel, Bundesbank President Dr Jens Weidmann raises his concerns over the most recent plans how to solve the euro crisis and explains why price stability has to be the only aim of the central banks.

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55 years for stability

Interview with Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, and Helmut Schlesinger, former Bundesbank President, published in the staff magazine of the Bundesbank on 2012-07-27
The Bundesbank celebrates its 55th birthday on 1 August and continues to stand for an exceptionally strong orientation to stability. We discussed the highs and lows of this era with Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann and former Bundesbank President Helmut Schlesinger, who has been following the Bank’s fortunes since its beginning. The interview was conducted on 29 June 2012, shortly after the Brussels EU summit had cleared the way for a European banking union.

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