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Interview with Klaus Regling, ESM Managing Director 
Published in Süddeutsche Zeitung, 25 June 2018
Interviewer: Alexander Mühlauer
 
 
SZ: Mr Regling, when you started your job rescuing the euro, you said that you would prefer to have nothing to do. It didn’t work out that way, did it?
 

Luxembourg – The Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) held its sixth Annual Meeting today at the ESM’s premises in Luxembourg and approved the ESM Annual Report for 2017. The Board of Governors comprises the 19 euro area finance ministers. They discussed the main developments of the ESM over the past year and its key activities, including funding, investment and lending.

The annual report contains a description of the ESM's policies, activities, financial statements and economic developments in 2017.  Additionally, it contains an external auditor's report and a report of the Board of Auditors.

Interview with Klaus Regling, ESM Managing Director
Published in the Luxembourg Times (excerpts)
Interviewer: Hannah Brenton
Date of interview: 18 June 2018; published 20 June 2018
 
 
How could the powers of the ESM be increased as part of the broader efforts to strengthen the eurozone?

“The objective is not to make the ESM stronger, the objective is to make monetary union more robust - and for that purpose there are also ideas to give the ESM additional mandates."
 

Interview with Klaus Regling, ESM Managing Director
Published in Ta Nea (Greece), 16 June 2018
Interviewer:  Elena Laskari
 
 
Ta Nea: Less than a week before the next Eurogroup meeting, how close are we to the final decisions on Greek debt?