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"en.20110927.29.2-521-000"2
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"Mr President, I am all for a system where euro area Member States respect non-euro area Member States. Would that the reverse were also true for the sake of reciprocity. I notice sometimes that recommendations aimed at the euro area are made publicly. Yet I am pretty sure that, if the countries making these recommendations were members of the euro area, they would not pass this type of comment.
As President of the Eurogroup, I always make sure I debrief non-euro area Member States. Each meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) starts with the President of the Eurogroup giving an accurate progress report of the Eurogroup’s work.
For the rest, I did not quite understand your – how should I put it – demographic and numerical question: you mentioned a country with 30 or 40 million inhabitants. For good reason, I have never really differentiated between the large and small EU Member States. I do not even do it when I am in China. I always take the Chinese Prime Minister by the shoulder, and I say to him: ‘You do realise that you, the Chinese Prime Minister, and me, the Luxembourg Prime Minister, we represent a third of humanity’. He always looks very convinced."@en1
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